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We construct a spinfoam model for Yang-Mills theory coupled to quantum gravity in three dimensional riemannian spacetime. We define the partition function of the coupled system as a power series in g_0^2 G that can be evaluated order by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Simone Speziale

We continue the study of partition functions of 5d supersymmetric theories on manifolds taking the form of a twisted product $\mathcal{M}_3\times \Sigma_{\mathfrak{g}}$ with $\Sigma_{\mathfrak{g}}$ denoting a Riemann surface of genus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-01 Dharmesh Jain

In this work we conjecture the Coulomb branch partition function, including flux and instanton contributions, for the $\mathcal{N}=2$ vector multiplet on weighted projective space $\mathbb{CP}^2_{\boldsymbol{N}}$ for equivariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-28 Roman Mauch , Lorenzo Ruggeri

We use supersymmetric localization to compute the partition function of N=2 super-Yang-Mills on S^4 in the presence of a gauged linear sigma model surface defect on a S^2 subspace. The result takes the form of a standard partition function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-02 Joel Lamy-Poirier

We attempt to determine the partition function of ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory for $ADE$ gauge groups on $K3$ and investigate the relation with affine Lie algebras. In particular we describe eta functions, which compose SU(N)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Toru Sasaki

An exact formula for partition functions in 3d field theories was recently suggested by Jafferis, and Hama, Hosomichi, and Lee. These functions are expressed in terms of specific $q$-hypergeometric integrals whose key building block is the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-28 F. A. H. Dolan , V. P. Spiridonov , G. S. Vartanov

We compute the 2-loop thermal partition function of Yang-Mills theory on a small 3-sphere, in the large N limit with weak 't Hooft coupling. We include N_s scalars and N_f chiral fermions in the adjoint representation of the gauge group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-07 Matan Mussel , Ran Yacoby

Five-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories are investigated from the viewpoint of random plane partitions. It is shown that random plane partitions are factorizable as q-deformed random partitions so that they admit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Takashi Maeda , Toshio Nakatsu , Kanehisa Takasaki , Takeshi Tamakoshi

We investigate the large N reduced model of gauge theory on a curved spacetime through the plane wave matrix model. We formally derive the action of the N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on R \times S^3 from the plane wave matrix model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-28 Yoshihisa Kitazawa , Koichiro Matsumoto

We study 7D maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on 3-Sasakian manifolds. For manifolds whose hyper-K\"ahler cones are hypertoric we derive the perturbative part of the partition function. The answer involves a special function that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Nikolaos Iakovidis , Jian Qiu , Andreas Rocén , Maxim Zabzine

We provide a general formula for the partition function of three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories placed on $S^2 \times S^1$ with a topological twist along $S^2$, which can be interpreted as an index for chiral states of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-29 Francesco Benini , Alberto Zaffaroni

In this paper the partition function of N=4 D=0 super Yang-Mills matrix theory with arbitrary simple gauge group is discussed. We explicitly computed its value for all classical groups of rank up to 11 and for the exceptional groups G_2,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Vasily Pestun

We study 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric theories on a compact Euclidean manifold of the form $S^1 \times\mathcal{M}_3$. Partition functions of gauge theories on this background can be computed using localization, and explicit formulas…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Lorenzo Di Pietro , Masazumi Honda

We consider a twisted version of the four-dimensional N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge groups SU(2) and SO(3), and bare masses for two of its chiral multiplets, thereby breaking N=4 down to N=2. Using the wall-crossing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. M. F. Labastida , Carlos Lozano

Recently there was a substantial progress in understanding of supersymmetric theories (in particular, their BPS spectrum) in space-times of different dimensions due to the exact computation of superconformal indices and partition functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-10 Ilmar Gahramanov , Grigory Vartanov

We show that a recently conjectured form for perturbative supersymmetric partition functions on spheres of general dimension $d$ is consistent with the flat space limit of 6-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ super Yang-Mills. We also show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Joseph A. Minahan , Usman Naseer

We consider the partition function and correlation functions in the bosonic and supersymmetric Yang-Mills matrix models with compact semi-simple gauge group. In the supersymmetric case, we show that the partition function converges when…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Peter Austing , John F. Wheater

We investigate 3d $\mathscr{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on $S^1 \times S^2$ and the corresponding 2d effective field theories arising in the limit of small ratio of radii, $\beta=R_{S^1}/R_{S^2}\to 0$. We evaluate the exact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Antonio Amariti , Jun Nian , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Alessia Segati

We evaluate partition functions of matrix models which are given by topologically twisted and dimensionally reduced actions of d=4 N=1 super Yang-Mills theories with classical (semi-)simple gauge groups, SO(2N), SO(2N+1) and USp(2N). The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Itoyama , H. Kihara , R. Yoshioka

Recently it has been proposed that the coefficient of the three-point function of the BMN operators in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory is related to the three-string interactions in the pp-wave background. We calculate three-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Chong-Sun Chu , Valentin V. Khoze , Gabriele Travaglini