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The planar limit of $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal quiver theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-06-16 v2

Abstract

We compute the planar limit of both the free energy and the expectation value of the 1/21/2 BPS Wilson loop for four dimensional N=2{\cal N}=2 superconformal quiver theories, with a product of SU(NN)s as gauge group and bi-fundamental matter. Supersymmetric localization reduces the problem to a multi-matrix model, that we rewrite in the zero-instanton sector as an effective action involving an infinite number of double-trace terms, determined by the relevant extended Cartan matrix. We find that the results, as in the case of N=2\mathcal{N}=2 SCFTs with a simple gauge group, can be written as sums over tree graphs. For the A1^\widehat{A_1} case, we find that the contribution of each tree can be interpreted as the partition function of a generalized Ising model defined on the tree; we conjecture that the partition functions of these models defined on trees satisfy the Lee-Yang property, i.e. all their zeros lie on the unit circle.

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@article{arxiv.2006.06379,
  title  = {The planar limit of $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal quiver theories},
  author = {Bartomeu Fiol and Jairo Martínez-Montoya and Alan Rios Fukelman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.06379},
  year   = {2020}
}

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26 pages, 3 figures, references added