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Gauge theories on compact toric manifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-06-30 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We compute the N=2{\cal N}=2 supersymmetric partition function of a gauge theory on a four-dimensional compact toric manifold via equivariant localization. The result is given by a piecewise constant function of the K\"ahler form with jumps along the walls where the gauge symmetry gets enhanced. The partition function on such manifolds is written as a sum over the residues of a product of partition functions on C2\mathbb{C}^2. The evaluation of these residues is greatly simplified by using an "abstruse duality" that relates the residues at the poles of the one-loop and instanton parts of the C2\mathbb{C}^2 partition function. As particular cases, our formulae compute the SU(2)SU(2) and SU(3)SU(3) {\it equivariant} Donaldson invariants of P2\mathbb{P}^2 and Fn\mathbb{F}_n and in the non-equivariant limit reproduce the results obtained via wall-crossing and blow up methods in the SU(2)SU(2) case. Finally, we show that the U(1)U(1) self-dual connections induce an anomalous dependence on the gauge coupling, which turns out to satisfy a N=2\mathcal{N}=2 analog of the N=4\mathcal{N}=4 holomorphic anomaly equations.

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@article{arxiv.2007.15468,
  title  = {Gauge theories on compact toric manifolds},
  author = {Giulio Bonelli and Francesco Fucito and Jose Francisco Morales and Massimiliano Ronzani and Ekaterina Sysoeva and Alessandro Tanzini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.15468},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

41 pages, 3 figures, discussion on SU(3) results moved to a different section, added a discussion on stability in section 2 and a mathematical appendix on this subject