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We consider mass-deformed theories with ${\cal N}\geq2$ supersymmetry on round and squashed three-spheres. By embedding the supersymmetric backgrounds in extended supergravity we show that at special values of mass deformations the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Joseph Minahan , Usman Naseer , Charles Thull

We work out the factorization of the 3d superconformal index for N = 2 $U(N_c)$ gauge theory withone adjoint chiral multiplet as well as $N_f$ fundamental, $N_a$ anti-fundamental chiral multiplets. Using the factorization,one can prove the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Chiung Hwang , Jaemo Park

We calculate the superconformal indices of recently discovered three-dimensional N=4,5 Chern-Simons-matter theories and compare them with the corresponding indices of supergravity on AdS4 times orbifolds of S7. We find perfect agreement in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-31 Jaehyung Choi , Sangmin Lee , Jaewon Song

We consider three-dimensional ${\mathcal N}=2$ supersymmetric field theories defined on general complex-valued backgrounds of Euclidean new minimal supergravity admitting two Killing spinors of opposite $R$-charges. We compute partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-17 Matteo Inglese , Dario Martelli , Antonio Pittelli

We define a squashed four-sphere by a dimensional reduction of a twisted S^4 x S^1, and construct explicitly a supersymmetric Yang-Mills action on it. The action includes a non-trivial dilaton factor and a theta term with a non-constant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-16 Tomoki Nosaka , Seiji Terashima

We compute the partition function of $\mathcal N=2$ supersymmetric mixed dimensional QED on a squashed hemisphere using localization. Mixed dimensional QED is an abelian gauge theory coupled to charged matter fields at the boundary. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 Rajesh Kumar Gupta , Augniva Ray , Karunava Sil

We compute correlation functions of local operator insertions on the 1/2 BPS Wilson lines of N=4 Chern-Simons-matter theories in 3 dimensions. We study the algebra preserved by the defect CFT supported on the line, identify the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-06 Riccardo Giordana Pozzi , Diego Trancanelli

We investigate an N=4 U(N)_k x U(N+M)_{-k} Chern-Simons theory coupled to one bifundamental hypermultiplet by employing its partition function, which is given by 2N+M dimensional integration via localization. Surprisingly, by performing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Tomoki Nosaka , Shuichi Yokoyama

We investigate the superconformal index and the partition function for the chiral-like Chern-Simons-matter theory proposed for M2-branes probing the cones over $M^{3,2}$ and find perfect agreements with the gravity index and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Dongmin Gang , Chiung Hwang , Seok Kim , Jaemo Park

We study partition function of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric field theory on $T^2 \times S^2$. By applying supersymmetry localization, we show that the $T^2 \times S^2$ partition function is given by elliptic genus of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-17 Masazumi Honda , Yutaka Yoshida

We study three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on $\mathcal{M}_{g,p}$, an oriented circle bundle of degree $p$ over a closed Riemann surface, $\Sigma_g$. We compute the $\mathcal{M}_{g,p}$ supersymmetric partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Cyril Closset , Heeyeon Kim , Brian Willett

Conformal symmetry relates the metric on $AdS_2 \times S^{1}$ to that of $S^3$. This implies that under a suitable choice of boundary conditions for fields on $AdS_2$ the partition function of conformal field theories on these spaces must…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Justin R. David , Edi Gava , Rajesh Kumar Gupta , Kumar Narain

We compute superconformal indices for $\mathcal{N} = 3$ $\hat{ADE}$ Chern-Simons quiver gauge theories with a product gauge group $\prod_i U(N)_i$, using the method of supersymmetric localization. We also perform a large $N$ analysis of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-20 Moumita Patra

We present a trace formula for an index over the spectrum of four dimensional superconformal field theories on $S^3 \times $ time. Our index receives contributions from states invariant under at least one supercharge and captures all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 Justin Kinney , Juan Maldacena , Shiraz Minwalla , Suvrat Raju

We present a compact formula for the supersymmetric partition function of 2d N=(2,2), 3d N=2 and 4d N=1 gauge theories on $\Sigma_g \times T^n$ with partial topological twist on $\Sigma_g$, where $\Sigma_g$ is a Riemann surface of arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-18 Francesco Benini , Alberto Zaffaroni

We use the 3d-3d correspondence together with the DGG construction of theories $T_n[M]$ labelled by 3-manifolds M to define a non-perturbative state-integral model for SL(n,C) Chern-Simons theory at any level k, based on ideal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-04 Tudor Dimofte

Chern-Simons (CS) theories with rank $N$ and level $k$ on Seifert manifold are discussed. The partition functions of such theories can be written as a function of modular transformation matrices summed over different integrable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-01 Arghya Chattopadhyay , Suvankar Dutta , Neetu

In this work, we revisit the exact computation of the round sphere partition function of 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ circular quiver Chern-Simons theories with mass and Fayet-Iliopoulos (FI) deformations. Utilizing the Fermi gas formalism, we derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Naotaka Kubo , Tomoki Nosaka , Yi Pang

We show a large N reduction on S^3 in a BPS sector for a broad class of theories : N>=2 supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory with any number of adjoint and bi-fundamental chiral multiplets.We show that a localization method can be applied to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Masazumi Honda , Yutaka Yoshida

We give a pedagogical introduction to the study of supersymmetric partition functions of 3D $\mathcal{N}{=}2$ supersymmetric Chern-Simons-matter theories (with an $R$-symmetry) on half-BPS closed three-manifolds---including $S^3$, $S^2…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Cyril Closset , Heeyeon Kim