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We show that interval partition functions (transition amplitudes) of three-dimensional $N = 2$ theories admit factorizations into sums of products of hemisphere partition functions with additional normalization factors. We prove the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-30 Boan Zhao , Panos Betzios , Paul Luis Roehl

Superconformal indices of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ gauge theories factorize into holomorphic blocks. We interpret this as a modular property resulting from the combined action of an $SL(3,\mathbb{Z})$ and $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})\ltimes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-22 Vishnu Jejjala , Yang Lei , Sam van Leuven , Wei Li

This is the 8th article in the collection of reviews "Exact results in N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories", ed. J. Teschner. The article reviews the superconformal index. It is often simpler to calculate than instanton partition functions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-23 Leonardo Rastelli , Shlomo S. Razamat

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

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

The superconformal index of a 4d gauge theory is computed by a matrix integral arising from localization of the supersymmetric path integral on S^3 x S^1 to the saddle point. As the radius of the circle goes to zero, it is natural to expect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Abhijit Gadde , Wenbin Yan

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 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

We probe the 3d-3d correspondence for mapping cylinder/torus using the superconformal index. We focus on the case when the fiber is a once-punctured torus (\Sigma_{1,1}). The corresponding 3d field theories can be realized using duality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Dongmin Gang , Eunkyung Koh , Sangmin Lee , Jaemo Park

We apply localization techniques to compute the partition function of a two-dimensional N=(2,2) R-symmetric theory of vector and chiral multiplets on S^2. The path integral reduces to a sum over topological sectors of a matrix integral over…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-27 Francesco Benini , Stefano Cremonesi

We consider supersymmetric gauge theories on Riemannian three-manifolds with the topology of a three-sphere. The three-manifold is always equipped with an almost contact structure and an associated Reeb vector field. We show that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Luis F. Alday , Dario Martelli , Paul Richmond , James Sparks

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

We generalize the free Fermi-gas formulation of certain 3d ${\cal N}=3$ supersymmetric Chern-Simons-matter theories by allowing Fayet-Iliopoulos couplings as well as mass terms for bifundamental matter fields. The resulting partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-14 Nadav Drukker , Jan Felix

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

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 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 present an explicit construction of the factorization of Seiberg-Witten curves for N=2 theory with fundamental flavors. We first rederive the exact results for the case of complete factorization, and subsequently derive new results for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Romuald A. Janik , Niels A. Obers , Peter B. Ronne

We study N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories on squashed 3-sphere and S^1xS^2. Recent studies have shown that the partition functions in a class of N=2 theories have factorized forms in terms of vortex and anti-vortex partition functions by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-21 Masashi Fujitsuka , Masazumi Honda , Yutaka Yoshida

We revisit the factorisation of supersymmetric partition functions of 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ gauge theories. The building blocks are hemisphere partition functions of a class of UV $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ boundary conditions that mimic the presence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Mathew Bullimore , Samuel Crew , Daniel Zhang

We show that $U(N)$ $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric gauge theories on $S^{3}$ with $N_{f}$ massive fundamental hypermultiplets and with a Fayet-Iliopoulos (FI) term are solvable in terms of generalized Selberg integrals. Finite $N$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-31 Miguel Tierz