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The partition function of type IIA and B strings on R^6xK3, in the T^4/Z_2 orbifold limit, is explicitly computed as a modular invariant sum over spin strutures required by perturbative unitarity in order to extend the analysis to include…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-15 L. Dolan , M. Langham

We define a 3-algebra with structure constants being symmetric in the first two indices. We also introduce an invariant anti-symmetric tensor into this 3-algebra and call it a symplectic 3-algebra. The general N=5 superconformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-08-19 Fa-Min Chen

Based on the realization of three-algebras in terms of algebra of matrices and four-brackets [arXiv:0807.1570] we present the notion of u(N)-based extended three-algebras, which for N=2 reproduces the Bagger-Lambert three-algebra. Using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-22 M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari

We present an identity relating the partition function of N=4 supersymmetric QED to that of its dual under mirror symmetry. The identity is a generalized Fourier transform. Many known properties of abelian theories can be derived from this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Anton Kapustin , Matthew J. Strassler

The partition function of the Chern-Simons theory on the three-sphere with the unitary group $U(N)$ provides a one-matrix model. The corresponding $N$-particle system can be mapped to the determinantal point process whose correlation kernel…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-09 Yuta Takahashi , Makoto Katori

We use localization techniques to study several duality proposals for supersymmetric gauge theories in three dimensions reminiscent of Seiberg duality. We compare the partition functions of dual theories deformed by real mass terms and FI…

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

We consider $U(N)_k$ Chern-Simons theory on $S^3$ in Seifert framing and write down the partition function as a unitary matrix model. In the large $k$ and large $N$ limit the eigenvalue density satisfies an upper bound…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-17 Kushal Chakraborty , Suvankar Dutta

In this paper, we study the uniform measure for the self-conjugate partitions. We derive the $q$-difference equation which is satisfied by the $n$-point correlation function related to the uniform measure. As applications, we give explicit…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Zhiyong Wang , Chenglang Yang

We count the supersymmetric vacua of mass-deformed N=6 U(N)xU(N) Chern-Simons-matter theory by calculating the Witten index. When the Chern-Simons level k is 1, our result perfectly agrees with that from the gravity dual, given by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Hee-Cheol Kim , Seok Kim

We study physical consequences of adding orientifolds to the ABJ triality, which is among 3d N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons theory known as ABJ theory, type IIA string in AdS_4 x CP^3 and N=6 supersymmetric (SUSY) Vasiliev higher spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-04 Masazumi Honda , Yi Pang , Yaodong Zhu

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 combine supersymmetric localization results and the numerical conformal bootstrap technique to study the 3d maximally supersymmetric (${\cal N} = 8$) CFT on $N$ coincident M2-branes (the $U(N)_k \times U(N)_{-k}$ ABJM theory at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Nathan B. Agmon , Shai M. Chester , Silviu S. Pufu

We discuss the large $N$ factorization properties of five-dimensional supersymmetric partition functions for CFT with a holographic dual. We consider partition functions on manifolds of the form $\mathcal{M}= \mathcal{M}_3 \times…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-19 Seyed Morteza Hosseini , Itamar Yaakov , Alberto Zaffaroni

In this paper we briefly review the main idea of the localization technique and its extension suitable in supersymmetric gauge field theory. We analyze the partition function of the vector multiplets with supercharges and its blocks on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-25 A. A. Bytsenko , M. Chaichian , A. E. Gonçalves

We explicitly apply localization results to study the interpolation between three and two dimensional mirror symmetry for Abelian gauge theories with four supercharges. We first use the ellipsoid S_b^3 partition functions to verify the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Heng-Yu Chen , Hsiao-Yi Chen , Jun-Kai Ho

The bulk partition function of pure Chern-Simons theory on a three-manifold is a state in the space of conformal blocks of the dual boundary RCFT, and therefore transforms non-trivially under the boundary modular group. In contrast the bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Sergei Gukov , Emil Martinec , Gregory Moore , Andrew Strominger

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

We revisit the N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theories and their supergravity duals in the context of generalized symmetries. This allows us to finally clarify how the $SU(N)\times SU(N)$ and $(SU(N)\times SU(N))/\mathbb{Z}_N$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Oren Bergman , Yuji Tachikawa , Gabi Zafrir

The semiclassical approximation for the partition function in Chern-Simons gauge theory is derived using the invariant integration method. Volume and scale factors which were undetermined and had to be fixed by hand in previous derivations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 David H. Adams

We show that the supersymmetric partition function of three-dimensional N=2 R-symmetric Chern-Simons-matter theories on the squashed S^3 and on S^2 x S^1 can be computed with the so-called Higgs branch localization method, alternative to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-04 Francesco Benini , Wolfger Peelaers