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N=2 gauge theories on the hemisphere $HS^4$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-08-15 v3

Abstract

Using localization techniques, we compute the path integral of N=2N=2 SUSY gauge theory coupled to matter on the hemisphere HS4HS^4, with either Dirichlet or Neumann supersymmetric boundary conditions. The resulting quantities are wave-functions of the theory depending on the boundary data. The one-loop determinant are computed using SO(4)SO(4) harmonics basis. We solve kernel and co-kernel equations for the relevant differential operators arising from gauge and matter localizing actions. The second method utilizes full SO(5)SO(5) harmonics to reduce the computation to evaluating QSUSY2Q_{SUSY}^2 eigenvalues and its multiplicities. In the Dirichlet case, we show how to glue two wave-functions to get back the partition function of round S4S^4. We will also describe how to obtain the same results using SO(5)SO(5) harmonics basis.

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@article{arxiv.1611.04804,
  title  = {N=2 gauge theories on the hemisphere $HS^4$},
  author = {Edi Gava and K. S. Narain and Nouman Muteeb and V. I. Giraldo-Rivera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.04804},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

47 pages, discussion on instanton corrections in section 6 revised, typos corrected, two references added