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Extending the works arXiv:1504.05991 and arXiv:1510.02142, we study three dimensional Euclidean higher spin gravity with negative cosmological constant. This theory can be formulated in terms of SL(N,C) Chern-Simons theory. By introducing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Masazumi Honda , Norihiro Iizuka , Akinori Tanaka , Seiji Terashima

We study BPS solitons in N=6 U(N) \times U(N) Chern-Simons-matter theory deformed by an F-term mass. The F-term mass generically breaks N=6 supersymmetry down to N=2. At vacua, M2-branes are polarized into a fuzzy S^3 forming a spherical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-27 Masato Arai , Claus Montonen , Shin Sasaki

This is the second and final part of ``Topological twists of massive SQCD''. Part I is available at arXiv:2206.08943. In this second part, we evaluate the contribution of the Coulomb branch to topological path integrals for $\mathcal{N}=2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-14 Johannes Aspman , Elias Furrer , Jan Manschot

We study complex Chern-Simons theory on a Seifert manifold $M_3$ by embedding it into string theory. We show that complex Chern-Simons theory on $M_3$ is equivalent to a topologically twisted supersymmetric theory and its partition function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-01 Sergei Gukov , Du Pei

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 consider $U(N)$ SQCD on $S^5$ and propose a Higgs branch-like expression for its partition function. We support the result by arguing that the knowledge of certain BPS codimension 2 and 4 defects arising from Higgsing is enough to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-08 Fabrizio Nieri , Yiwen Pan , Maxim Zabzine

We study 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ Chern-Simons (CS) quiver theories on $S^3$ and ${\Sigma}_{\mathfrak{g}}\times S^1$. Using localization results, we examine their partition functions in the large rank limit and requiring the resulting matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-08 Dharmesh Jain , Augniva Ray

We develop new techniques for computing exact correlation functions of a class of local operators, including certain monopole operators, in three-dimensional $\mathcal{N} = 4$ abelian gauge theories that have superconformal infrared limits.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-18 Mykola Dedushenko , Yale Fan , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

We consider Chern-Simons theory with complex gauge group and present a complete non-perturbative evaluation of the path integral (the partition function and certain expectation values of Wilson loops) on Seifert fibred 3-Manifolds. We use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-04 Matthias Blau , George Thompson

We study the $S^3$ partition function of three-dimensional supersymmetric $\mathcal{N}=4$ U($N$) SQCD with massive matter multiplets in the infinite mass limit with the so-called Coulomb branch localization. We show that in the infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-15 Kazuma Shimizu

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

In this paper we study supersymmetric Chern-Simons-matter (CSM) theories with several Higgs branches. Two such theories at small Chern-Simons level are conjectured to describe the superconformal field theory at the infrared fixed point of N…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-10-08 Daniel Louis Jafferis , Xi Yin

Continuing the work arXiv:1504.05991, we discuss various aspects of three dimensional quantum gravity partition function in AdS in the semi-classical limit. The partition function is holomorphic and is the one which we obtained by using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Masazumi Honda , Norihiro Iizuka , Akinori Tanaka , Seiji Terashima

We study three dimensional gauge theories with N=2 supersymmetry. We show that the Coulomb branches of such theories may be rendered compact by the dynamical generation of Chern-Simons terms and present a new class of mirror symmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Nick Dorey , David Tong

We study the Coulomb-branch sector of 3D $\mathcal{N}=4$ gauge theories with half-hypermultiplets in general pseudoreal representations $\mathbf{R}$ ("noncotangent" theories). This yields (short) quantization of the Coulomb branch and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Mykola Dedushenko , Daniel Resnick

An important question in the study of N=2 supersymmetric string or field theories is to compute the jump of the BPS spectrum across walls of marginal stability in the space of parameters or vacua. I survey four apparently different answers…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Boris Pioline

We specify the conjecture about the structure of the Coulomb branch of N=2 supersymmetric quantum field theories in four dimensions.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Denis Degtyarev

Partition functions of N=2 theories on the squashed 3-sphere have been recently shown to localise to matrix integrals. By explicitly evaluating the matrix integral we show that abelian partition functions can be expressed as a sum of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Sara Pasquetti

We find exact relations among the sphere partition functions of three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal Chern-Simons theories with circular quiver diagrams. These relations suggest new dualities in gauge theories which are the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-01 Naotaka Kubo

Localization of supersymmetric $\mathcal{N}=2$ Chern-Simons-Matter theory on a squashed $S^3$ with $SU(2)\times U(1)$ isometry has been studied by different groups of authors. In this paper, we localize the theory on a squashed $S^3$ with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-31 Jun Nian