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Boundary conditions and localization on AdS: Part 2 General analysis

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-03-18 v1

Abstract

We develop the method of Green's function to evaluate the one loop determinants that arise in localization of supersymmetric field theories on AdSAdS spaces. The theories we study have at least N=2{\cal N}=2 supersymmetry and normalisable boundary conditions are consistent with supersymmetry. We then show that under general assumptions the variation of the one loop determinant with respect to the localizing background reduces to a total derivative. Therefore it receives contributions only from the origin of AdSAdS and from asymptotic infinity. From expanding both the Greens function and the quadratic operators at the origin of AdSAdS and asymptotic infinity, we show that the variation of the one loop determinant is proportional to an integer. Furthermore, we show that this integer is an index of a first order differential operator. We demonstrate that these assumptions are valid for Chern-Simons theories coupled to chiral multiplets on AdS2×S1AdS_2\times S^1. Finally we use our results to show that U(Nc)U(N_c) Chern-Simons theory at level kk coupled to NfN_f chiral multiplets and NfN_f anti-chiral multiplets in the fundamental obeys level-rank duality on AdS2×S1AdS_2\times S^1.

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@article{arxiv.1906.02722,
  title  = {Boundary conditions and localization on AdS: Part 2 General analysis},
  author = {Justin R. David and Edi Gava and Rajesh Kumar Gupta and Kumar Narain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.02722},
  year   = {2020}
}

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38 pages

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