Factorisation and holomorphic blocks in 4d
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-01-20 v1
Abstract
We study N=1 theories on Hermitian manifolds of the form M^4=S^1xM^3 with M^3 a U(1) fibration over S^2, and their 3d N=2 reductions. These manifolds admit an Heegaard-like decomposition in solid tori D^2xT^2 and D^2xS^1. We prove that when the 4d and 3d anomalies are cancelled the matrix integrands in the Coulomb branch partition functions can be factorised in terms of 1-loop factors on D^2xT^2 and D^2xS^1 respectively. By evaluating the Coulomb branch matrix integrals we show that the 4d and 3d partition functions can be expressed as sums of products of 4d and 3d holomorphic blocks.
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@article{arxiv.1507.00261,
title = {Factorisation and holomorphic blocks in 4d},
author = {Fabrizio Nieri and Sara Pasquetti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.00261},
year = {2016}
}
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57 pages