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We formulate a `master' partition function in three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superspace that realises, upon integrating out complementary superfields, both the electric Maxwell--Chern--Simons (MCS) theory and its magnetic $S$-dual: a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-15 Adi Armoni , Ricardo Stuardo , Mark Thomas

Within the superfield approach, we consider the duality between the supersymmetric Maxwell-Chern-Simons and self-dual theories in three spacetime dimensions. Using a gauge embedding method, we construct the dual theory to the self-dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. F. Ferrari , M. Gomes , J. R. S. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov , A. J. da Silva

Lectures presented at the 33rd Karpacz Winter School ``Duality: Strings and Fields'' briefly introducing dualities in four-dimensional quantum field theory, and summarizing results found in supersymmetric field theories. The first lecture…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 P. C. Argyres

We construct T-duality on K3 surfaces. The T-duality exchanges a 4-brane R-R charge and a 0-brane R-R charge. We study the action of the T-duality on the moduli space of 0-branes located at points of K3 and 4-branes wrapping it. We apply…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Kentaro Hori , Yaron Oz

We discuss gauge theory with a topological N=2 symmetry. This theory captures the de Rham complex and Riemannian geometry of some underlying moduli space $\cal M$ and the partition function equals the Euler number of $\cal M$. We explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Matthias Blau , George Thompson

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 the structure of the moduli spaces of vacua and superpotentials of N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories in three dimensions. By analyzing the instanton corrections, we compute the exact superpotentials and determine the quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Jan de Boer , Kentaro Hori , Yaron Oz

We consider N = 2 superconformal field theory with following properties: a) Coulomb branch operators have fractional scaling dimensions, b) there are exact marginal deformations . The weakly coupled gauge theory descriptions are found by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-12 Dan Xie , Shing-Tung Yau

We generalize the Giveon-Kutasov duality by adding possible Chern-Simons interactions for the $U(N)$ gauge group. Some of the generalized dualities are known in the literature and many others are new to the best of our knowledge. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-15 Keita Nii

We derive exact formulae for the partition function and the expectation values of Wilson/'t Hooft loops, thus directly checking their S-duality transformations. We focus on a special class of N=2 gauge theories on S^4 with fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Francesco Fucito , Jose Francisco Morales , Rubik Poghossian , Daniel Ricci Pacifici

We consider (3+1)-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric QED with two flavors of fundamental hypermultiplets. This theory supports 1/2-BPS domain walls and flux tubes (strings), as well as their 1/4-BPS junctions. The effective (2+1)-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-27 M. Shifman , A. Yung

We study three dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric Chern-Simons-Matter theories on the direct product of a circle and a two dimensional hemisphere ($S^1 \times D^2$) with specified boundary conditions by the method of localization.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-08 Yutaka Yoshida , Katsuyuki Sugiyama

We analyze the most general case of third-order Chern-Simons-like theories of massive 3D gravity. Results show the conditions for finding the unitary regions on the parameter space. There exists $(n-1)$th order theories on the boundary of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-09 Sinan Sevim , M. Salih Zöğ

We investigate the singularity structure of the $(-1)^F$ graded partition function in QCD with $n_f \geq 1$ massive adjoint fermions in the large-$N$ limit. Here, $F$ is fermion number and $N$ is the number of colors. The large $N$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-22 Aleksey Cherman , Syo Kamata , Thomas Schaefer , Mithat Ünsal

We show that partition function of Chern-Simons theory on three-sphere with classical and exceptional groups (actually on the whole corresponding lines in Vogel's plane) can be represented as ratio of respectively triple and double sine…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 R. L. Mkrtchyan

We study dualities for 3d $\mathcal{N} = 2$ $SU(N_c)$ SQCD at Chern-Simons level $k$ in presence of an adjoint with polynomial superpotential. The dualities are dubbed chiral because there is a different amount of fundamentals $N_f$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Antonio Amariti , Marco Fazzi

We investigate S^3/Z_n partition function of 3d N = 2 supersymmetric field theories. In a gauge theory the partition function is the sum of the contributions of sectors specified by holonomies, and we should carefully choose the relative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 Yosuke Imamura , Hiroki Matsuno , Daisuke Yokoyama

We study $AdS_3$ supersymmetric vacua in N=4 and N=8, three dimensional gauged supergravities, with scalar manifolds $(\frac{SO(4,4)}{SO(4)\times SO(4)})^2$ and $\frac{SO(8,8)}{SO(8)\times SO(8)}$, non-semisimple Chern-Simons gaugings…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-30 Edi Gava , Parinya Karndumri , K. S. Narain

We investigate the properties of foliated gauge fields and construct several foliated field theories in 3+1d that describe foliated fracton orders both with and without matter, including the recent hybrid fracton models. These field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-18 Po-Shen Hsin , Kevin Slagle

U(1) gauge theory on ${\bf R}^4$ is known to possess an electric-magnetic duality symmetry that inverts the coupling constant and extends to an action of $SL(2,{\bf Z})$. In this paper, the duality is studied on a general four-manifold and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 Edward Witten