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Elliptic modular double and 4d partition functions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-01-17 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We consider 4d supersymmetric (special) unitary Γ\Gamma quiver gauge theories on compact manifolds which are T2T^2 fibrations over S2S^2. We show that their partition functions are correlators of vertex operators and screening charges of the modular double version of elliptic Wq,t;q(Γ)W_{q,t;q'}(\Gamma) algebras. We also consider a generating function of BPS surface defects supported on T2T^2 and show that it can be identified with a particular coherent state in the Fock module over the elliptic Heisenberg algebra.

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@article{arxiv.1703.04614,
  title  = {Elliptic modular double and 4d partition functions},
  author = {Rebecca Lodin and Fabrizio Nieri and Maxim Zabzine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.04614},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

v1: 34 pages, 3 figures; v2: corrected few typos, references added

R2 v1 2026-06-22T18:44:51.948Z