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AGT/Z$_2$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-07-25 v4

Abstract

We relate Liouville/Toda CFT correlators on Riemann surfaces with boundaries and cross-cap states to supersymmetric observables in four-dimensional N=2 gauge theories. Our construction naturally involves four-dimensional theories with fields defined on different Z2_2 quotients of the sphere (hemisphere and projective space) but nevertheless interacting with each other. The six-dimensional origin is a Z2_2 quotient of the setup giving rise to the usual AGT correspondence. To test the correspondence, we work out the RP4^4 partition function of four-dimensional N=2 theories by combining a 3d lens space and a 4d hemisphere partition functions. The same technique reproduces known RP2^2 partition functions in a form that lets us easily check two-dimensional Seiberg-like dualities on this nonorientable space. As a bonus we work out boundary and cross-cap wavefunctions in Toda CFT.

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@article{arxiv.1708.04631,
  title  = {AGT/Z$_2$},
  author = {Bruno Le Floch and Gustavo J. Turiaci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.04631},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

56 pages. v2: Clarify discrete theta angle. v3: Published in JHEP; extra references. v4: Minor sign fix; extra references

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