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On exact correlation functions of chiral ring operators in $2d$ $\mathcal{N}=(2, 2)$ SCFTs via localization

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-03-15 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the extremal correlation functions of (twisted) chiral ring operators via superlocalization in N=(2,2)\mathcal{N}=(2, 2) superconformal field theories (SCFTs) with central charge c3c\geq 3, especially for SCFTs with Calabi-Yau geometric phases. We extend the method in arXiv:1602.05971 with mild modifications, so that it is applicable to disentangle operators mixing on S2S^2 in nilpotent (twisted) chiral rings of 2d2d SCFTs. With the extended algorithm and technique of localization, we compute exactly the extremal correlators in 2d2d N=(2,2)\mathcal{N}=(2, 2) (twisted) chiral rings as non-holomorphic functions of marginal parameters of the theories. Especially in the context of Calabi-Yau geometries, we give an explicit geometric interpretation to our algorithm as the Griffiths transversality with projection on the Hodge bundle over Calabi-Yau complex moduli. We also apply the method to compute extremal correlators in K\"{a}hler moduli, or say twisted chiral rings, of several interesting Calabi-Yau manifolds. In the case of complete intersections in toric varieties, we provide an alternative formalism for extremal correlators via localization onto Higgs branch. In addition, as a spinoff we find that, from the extremal correlators of the top element in twisted chiral rings, one can extract chiral correlators in A-twisted topological theories.

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@article{arxiv.1712.01164,
  title  = {On exact correlation functions of chiral ring operators in $2d$ $\mathcal{N}=(2, 2)$ SCFTs via localization},
  author = {Jin Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.01164},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

50 pages + 3 appendices, typos corrected, the journal version