Topological twists of massive SQCD, Part II
Abstract
This is the second and final part of ``Topological twists of massive SQCD''. Part I is available at arXiv:2206.08943. In this second part, we evaluate the contribution of the Coulomb branch to topological path integrals for supersymmetric QCD with massive hypermultiplets on compact four-manifolds. Our analysis includes the decoupling of hypermultiplets, the massless limit and the merging of mutually non-local singularities at the Argyres-Douglas points. We give explicit mass expansions for the four-manifolds and . For , we find that the correlation functions are polynomial as function of the masses, while infinite series and (potential) singularities occur for . The mass dependence corresponds mathematically to the integration of the equivariant Chern class of the matter bundle over the moduli space of -fixed equations. We demonstrate that the physical partition functions agree with mathematical results on Segre numbers of instanton moduli spaces.
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@article{arxiv.2312.11616,
title = {Topological twists of massive SQCD, Part II},
author = {Johannes Aspman and Elias Furrer and Jan Manschot},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.11616},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
80 pages + appendices, 13 figures. Second part of a series of two papers, first part is available at arXiv:2206.08943. v2: published version