Topologically twisted indices in five dimensions and holography
Abstract
We provide a formula for the partition function of five-dimensional gauge theories on , topologically twisted along in the presence of general background magnetic fluxes, where is a toric K\"ahler manifold. The result can be expressed as a contour integral of the product of copies of the K-theoretic Nekrasov's partition function, summed over gauge magnetic fluxes. The formula generalizes to five dimensions the topologically twisted index of three- and four-dimensional field theories. We analyze the large limit of the partition function and some related quantities for two theories: SYM and the theory with flavors and an antisymmetric matter field. For , which can be easily generalized to , we conjecture the form of the relevant saddle point at large . The resulting partition function for SYM scales as and is in perfect agreement with the holographic results for domain walls in AdS. The large partition function for the theory scales as and gives a prediction for the entropy of a class of magnetically charged black holes in massive type IIA supergravity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1808.06626,
title = {Topologically twisted indices in five dimensions and holography},
author = {Seyed Morteza Hosseini and Itamar Yaakov and Alberto Zaffaroni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.06626},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
80 pages. v3: minor corrections, published version