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More on topological vertex formalism for 5-brane webs with O5-plane

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-05-13 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We propose a concrete form of a vertex function, which we call O-vertex, for the intersection between an O5-plane and a 5-brane in the topological vertex formalism, as an extension of the work of arXiv:1709.01928. Using the O-vertex it is possible to compute the Nekrasov partition functions of 5d theories realized on any 5-brane web diagrams with O5-planes. We apply our proposal to 5-brane webs with an O5-plane and compute the partition functions of pure SO(NN) gauge theories and the pure G2G_2 gauge theory. The obtained results agree with the results known in the literature. We also compute the partition function of the pure SU(3) gauge theory with the Chern-Simons level 99. At the end we rewrite the O-vertex in a form of a vertex operator.

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@article{arxiv.2012.13303,
  title  = {More on topological vertex formalism for 5-brane webs with O5-plane},
  author = {Hirotaka Hayashi and Rui-Dong Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.13303},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

41+12 pages, minor corrections in v2