Searches for new heavy resonances decaying into different pairings of $W$, $Z$, or Higgs bosons, as well as directly into leptons, are presented using a data sample corresponding to $36.1\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{fb}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ of $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{TeV}$ collected during 2015 and 2016 with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Analyses selecting bosonic decay modes in the $qqqq$, $\ensuremath{\nu}\ensuremath{\nu}qq$, $\ensuremath{\ell}\ensuremath{\nu}qq$, $\ensuremath{\ell}\ensuremath{\ell}qq$, $\ensuremath{\ell}\ensuremath{\nu}\ensuremath{\ell}\ensuremath{\nu}$, $\ensuremath{\ell}\ensuremath{\ell}\ensuremath{\nu}\ensuremath{\nu}$, $\ensuremath{\ell}\ensuremath{\nu}\ensuremath{\ell}\ensuremath{\ell}$, $\ensuremath{\ell}\ensuremath{\ell}\ensuremath{\ell}\ensuremath{\ell}$, $qqbb$, $\ensuremath{\nu}\ensuremath{\nu}bb$, $\ensuremath{\ell}\ensuremath{\nu}bb$, and $\ensuremath{\ell}\ensuremath{\ell}bb$ final states are combined, searching for a narrow-width resonance. Likewise, analyses selecting the leptonic $\ensuremath{\ell}\ensuremath{\nu}$ and $\ensuremath{\ell}\ensuremath{\ell}$ final states are also combined. These two sets of analyses are then further combined. No significant deviation from the Standard Model predictions is observed. Three benchmark models are tested: a model predicting the existence of a new heavy scalar singlet, a simplified model predicting a heavy vector-boson triplet, and a bulk Randall-Sundrum model with a heavy spin-2 Kaluza-Klein excitation of the graviton. Cross section limits are set at the 95% confidence level using an asymptotic approximation and are compared with predictions for the benchmark models. These limits are also expressed in terms of constraints on couplings of the heavy vector-boson triplet to quarks, leptons, and the Higgs boson. The data exclude a heavy vector-boson triplet with mass below 5.5 TeV in a weakly coupled scenario and 4.5 TeV in a strongly coupled scenario, as well as a Kaluza-Klein graviton with mass below 2.3 TeV.
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Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies