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The Faddeev-Popov gauge fixing in Yang-Mills theory is interpreted as equivariant localization. It is shown that the Faddeev-Popov procedure amounts to a construction of a symplectic manifold with a Hamiltonian group action. The BRST…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Levent Akant

Higher-point functions in N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory can be constructed using integrability by triangulating the surfaces on which Feynman graphs would be drawn. It remains hard to analytically compute the necessary re-gluing of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-13 Giulio Crisanti , Burkhard Eden , Maximilian Gottwald , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Tobias Scherdin

We propose that the structure of gauge theories, the $(2,0)$ and little-string theories is encoded in a unique function on the real group manifold $E_{10}(R)$. The function is invariant under the maximal compact subgroup $K$ acting on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ori J. Ganor

We compute the contour integral for the partition function of an $\mathcal{N}=2$ $SU(2)$ topologically twisted theory on $\mathbb{CP}^2$, dimensionally reducing from an $\mathcal{N}=1$ theory on $S^5$. Earlier works presented the partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Lorenzo Ruggeri

An intriguing coincidence between the partition function of super Yang-Mills theory and correlation functions of 2d Toda system has been heavily studied recently. While the partition function of gauge theory was explored by Nekrasov, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-17 Hong Zhang , Yutaka Matsuo

We derive the partition function of {\cal N}=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on orbifold-T^4/{\bf Z}_2 for gauge group SU(N). We generalize the method of our previous work for the SU(2) case to the SU(N) case. The resulting partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Masao Jinzenji , Toru Sasaki

We derive a formula for the BPS partition functions of arbitrary S-fold theories. We first generalize the known result for the ${\cal N}=4$ $U(N)$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory to $SO$ and $Sp$ theories, and then we extend the formula to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Reona Arai , Shota Fujiwara , Yosuke Imamura

We reconsider the relation of superconformal indices of superconformal field theories of class S with five-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory compactified on the product space of a round three-sphere and a Riemann surface. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-09 Teruhiko Kawano , Nariaki Matsumiya

We propose a nonperturbative framework to study general correlation functions of single-trace operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at large $N$. The basic strategy is to decompose them into fundamental building…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Thiago Fleury , Shota Komatsu

We construct ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on 4D manifolds with a Killing vector field with isolated fixed points. It turns out that for every fixed point one can allocate either instanton or anti-instanton contributions to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-09 Guido Festuccia , Jian Qiu , Jacob Winding , Maxim Zabzine

Supersymmetric localisation has led to several modern developments in the study of integrated correlators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theory. In particular, exact results have been derived for certain integrated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-30 Daniele Dorigoni , Paolo Vallarino

We show that topological strings on a class of non-compact Calabi-Yau threefolds is equivalent to two dimensional bosonic U(N) Yang-Mills on a torus. We explain this correspondence using the recent results on the equivalence of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Cumrun Vafa

Using supersymmetric localization, we show that the partition function of four-dimensional superconformal gauge theories - computed as a trace over BPS states without the insertion of $(-1)^F$ - is perturbatively protected and piecewise…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 Alejandro Cabo-Bizet

We consider correlation functions of topologically twisted, $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge group ${\rm SU}(2)$ and $N_f\leq 3$ massive hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation. For a smooth, compact,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 Elias Furrer , Jan Manschot

We extend the graviphoton-corrected prepotential of five-dimensional pure U(N) super Yang-Mills, which was originally proposed by Nekrasov, by incorporating the effect of the five-dimensional Chern-Simons term. This extension allows us to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Yuji Tachikawa

We compute the large N limit of the partition function of the Euclidean Yang--Mills measure with structure group SU(N) or U(N) on all closed compact surfaces, orientable or not, excepted for the sphere and the projective plane. This limit…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Thibaut Lemoine

The use of supersymmetric localisation has recently led to modular covariant expressions for certain integrated correlators of half-BPS operators in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with a general classical gauge group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Daniele Dorigoni , Michael B. Green , Congkao Wen , Haitian Xie

In this article, we study the localizaiton of the partition function of BPS vortices in $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ $U(N)$ super Yang-Mills theory with $N$-flavor on $\R^2$. The vortex partition function for $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ super Yang-Mills…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-06 Yutaka Yoshida

We study the Nekrasov partition function of the five dimensional U(N) gauge theory with maximal supersymmetry on R^4 x S^1 in the presence of codimension two defects. The codimension two defects can be described either as monodromy defects,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Mathew Bullimore , Hee-Cheol Kim , Peter Koroteev

Recently Alday, Gaiotto and Tachikawa have proposed relation between 2- and 4-dimensional conformal field theories. The relation implies that the Nekrasov partition functions of N=2 superconformal gauge theories are equal to conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-12 Masato Taki