Refined 3d-3d Correspondence
Abstract
We explore aspects of the correspondence between Seifert 3-manifolds and 3d supersymmetric theories with a distinguished abelian flavour symmetry. We give a prescription for computing the squashed three-sphere partition functions of such 3d theories constructed from boundary conditions and interfaces in a 4d 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 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 -matrix of refined Chern-Simons theory.
Cite
@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