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2D BPS Rings from Sphere Partition Functions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-04-27 v2

Abstract

We consider extremal correlation functions, involving arbitrary number of BPS (chiral or twisted chiral) operators and exactly one anti-BPS operator in 2D N=(2,2) theories. These correlators define the structure constants in the rings generated by the BPS operators with their operator product expansions. We present a way of computing these correlators from the sphere partition function of a deformed theory using localization. Relating flat space and sphere correlators is nontrivial due to operator mixing on the sphere induced by conformal anomaly. We discuss the supergravitational source of this complication and a resolution thereof. Finally, we demonstrate the process for the Quintic GLSM and the Landau-Ginzburg minimal models.

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@article{arxiv.1712.02551,
  title  = {2D BPS Rings from Sphere Partition Functions},
  author = {Nafiz Ishtiaque},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.02551},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

39 pages, 3 figures. Corrected typos and added references

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