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Refined 3d-3d Correspondence

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-05-03 v2

Abstract

We explore aspects of the correspondence between Seifert 3-manifolds and 3d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 supersymmetric theories with a distinguished abelian flavour symmetry. We give a prescription for computing the squashed three-sphere partition functions of such 3d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 theories constructed from boundary conditions and interfaces in a 4d N=2\mathcal{N}=2^* theory, mirroring the construction of Seifert manifold invariants via Dehn surgery. This is extended to include links in the Seifert manifold by the insertion of supersymmetric Wilson-'t Hooft loops in the 4d N=2\mathcal{N}=2^* theory. In the presence of a mass parameter for the distinguished flavour symmetry, we recover aspects of refined Chern-Simons theory with complex gauge group, and in particular construct an analytic continuation of the SS-matrix of refined Chern-Simons theory.

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@article{arxiv.1702.05045,
  title  = {Refined 3d-3d Correspondence},
  author = {Luis Fernando Alday and Pietro Benetti Genolini and Mathew Bullimore and Mark van Loon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.05045},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

51+12 pages, 21 figures; v2: typos corrected, references added

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