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S-duality and supersymmetry on curved manifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-10-28 v1 Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We perform a systematic study of S-duality for N=2{\cal N}=2 supersymmetric non-linear abelian theories on a curved manifold. Localization can be used to compute certain supersymmetric observables in these theories. We point out that localization and S-duality acting as a Legendre transform are not compatible. For these theories S-duality should be interpreted as Fourier transform and we provide some evidence for this. We also suggest the notion of a coholomological prepotential for an abelian theory that gives the same partition function as a given non-abelian supersymmetric theory.

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@article{arxiv.2007.12001,
  title  = {S-duality and supersymmetry on curved manifolds},
  author = {Guido Festuccia and Maxim Zabzine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.12001},
  year   = {2020}
}

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51 pages