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Topological twists of massive SQCD, Part II

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-10-14 v2 Differential Geometry Number Theory

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 N=2\mathcal{N}=2 supersymmetric QCD with Nf3N_f\leq 3 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 P2\mathbb{P}^2 and K3K3. For P2\mathbb{P}^2, we find that the correlation functions are polynomial as function of the masses, while infinite series and (potential) singularities occur for K3K3. The mass dependence corresponds mathematically to the integration of the equivariant Chern class of the matter bundle over the moduli space of QQ-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