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A note on D0-branes and instantons in 5d supersymmetric gauge theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-12-26 v2

Abstract

We refine a previous proposal for obtaining the multi-instanton partition function from the supersymmetric index of the 1d supersymmetric gauge theory on the worldline of D0-branes. We provide examples where the refinements are crucial for obtaining the correct result.

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@article{arxiv.1808.05648,
  title  = {A note on D0-branes and instantons in 5d supersymmetric gauge theories},
  author = {Eran Avraham and Oren Bergman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.05648},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

30 pages, 6 figures. Typos corrected