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Seiberg-Witten Theories on Ellipsoids

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-05 v3

Abstract

We present a set of equations for a 4D Killing spinor which guarantees the Seiberg-Witten theories on a curved background to be supersymmetric. The equations involve an SU(2) gauge field and some auxiliary fields in addition to the metric. Four-dimensional ellipsoids with U(1)xU(1) isometry are shown to admit a supersymmetry if these additional fields are chosen appropriately. We compute the partition function of general Seiberg-Witten theories on ellipsoids, and the result suggests a correspondence with 2D Liouville or Toda correlators with general coupling constant b.

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@article{arxiv.1206.6359,
  title  = {Seiberg-Witten Theories on Ellipsoids},
  author = {Naofumi Hama and Kazuo Hosomichi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.6359},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

1+27 pages, no figures. v2: references added, minor corrections. (published in JHEP) v3: results on FI-term added

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