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We compute exactly the partition function of two dimensional N=(2,2) gauge theories on S^2 and show that it admits two dual descriptions: either as an integral over the Coulomb branch or as a sum over vortex and anti-vortex excitations on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-04 Nima Doroud , Jaume Gomis , Bruno Le Floch , Sungjay Lee

We consider four-dimensional Omega-deformed N=2 supersymmetric SU(2) gauge theory on A1 space and its lift to five dimensions. We find that the partition functions can be reproduced via special geometry and the holomorphic anomaly equation.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-08 Daniel Krefl , Sheng-Yu Darren Shih

We propose a dictionary between geometry of triangulated 3-manifolds and physics of three-dimensional N=2 gauge theories. Under this duality, standard operations on triangulated 3-manifolds and various invariants thereof (classical as well…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-23 Tudor Dimofte , Davide Gaiotto , Sergei Gukov

We derive the partition function of 5d ${\cal N}=1$ gauge theories on the manifold $S^3_b \times \Sigma_{\frak g}$ with a partial topological twist along the Riemann surface, $\Sigma_{\frak g}$. This setup is a higher dimensional uplift of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 P. Marcos Crichigno , Dharmesh Jain , Brian Willett

We study four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric $U(N)$ gauge theory with $2N$ fundamental hypermultiplets in the self-dual $\Omega$-background. The partition function simplifies at special points of the parameter space and is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-19 Xinyu Zhang

This is the 10th article in the collection of reviews "Exact results on N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories", ed. J.Teschner. It reviews correspondences between three-dimensional gauge theories and complex Chern-Simons theory on suitable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-23 Tudor Dimofte

We study the Aharony duality for three dimensional $\mathcal N=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories for orthogonal gauge groups with matters in vector representation. We provide the evidence for the duality by working out the partition function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Chiung Hwang , Kyung-Jae Park , Jaemo Park

The noncommutative space $\mathbb{R}^3_\lambda$, a deformation of $\mathbb{R}^3$, supports a $3$-parameter family of gauge theory models with gauge-invariant harmonic term, stable vacuum and which are perturbatively finite to all orders.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Jean-Christophe Wallet

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 use localization techniques to study duality in N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories in three dimensions. Specifically, we consider a duality due to Aharony involving unitary and symplectic gauge groups, which is similar to Seiberg…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-13 Brian Willett , Itamar Yaakov

We study the supersymmetric partition function of {\cal N}= 4 super Yang-Mills with gauge group SU(N) on K3 in the large N, fixed g limit and show that it undergoes a first order phase transition at the S-duality invariant value of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Kyriakos Papadodimas

We study large $N$ phase transitions in $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories with gauge group $SU(N)$ and massive hypermultiplets in diverse representations. Using supersymmetric localization we identify cases where phase transitions occur. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-09 Jeremias Aguilera Damia , Jorge G. Russo

We explore the phases of N = 1 supersymmetric U(N) gauge theories with fundamental matter that arise as deformations of N = 2 SQCD by the addition of a superpotential for the adjoint chiral multiplet. As the parameters in the superpotential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Vijay Balasubramanian , Bo Feng , Min-xin Huang , Asad Naqvi

We systematically study 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ dualities for $U(N_c)$ gauge theories with different CS levels for the abelian and the non-abelian factors. We derive such dualities by a gauging/ungauging procedure on other known dualities and by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-14 Antonio Amariti , Simone Rota

We study a class of two-dimensional N=(2,2) supersymmetric gauge theories, given by semichiral multiplets coupled to the standard vector multiplet. In the UV, these theories are traditional gauge theories deformed by a gauged Wess-Zumino…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-19 Francesco Benini , P. Marcos Crichigno , Dharmesh Jain , Jun Nian

We compute the supersymmetric partition function on L(r,1)xS^1, the lens space index, for 4d gauge theories related by supersymmetric dualities and involving non simply-connected groups. This computation is sensitive to the global…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Shlomo S. Razamat , Brian Willett

We study two well-known classes of dualities in three dimensional N=2 supersymmetric field theories. In the first class there are non trivial interactions involving monopole operators while in the second class the dual gauge theories have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Amariti

In this paper we consider the phase structure of ``orientifold'' gauge theories--obtained from unitary supersymmetric gauge theories by replacing adjoint Majorana fermions by Dirac fermions in the symmetric or anti-symmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Timothy J. Hollowood , Asad Naqvi

We study 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on closed oriented Seifert manifold---circle bundles over an orbifold Riemann surface---, with a gauge group G given by a product of simply-connected and/or unitary Lie groups. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Cyril Closset , Heeyeon Kim , Brian Willett

We study the instanton partition functions of two well-known superconformal field theories with mass deformations. Two types of anomaly equations, namely, the modular anomaly and holomorphic anomaly, have been discovered in the literature.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-22 Min-xin Huang