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We propose a method for the evaluation of Witten index in D=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills quantum mechanics. We rederive a known result for the SU(2) gauge group and generalize it to any SU(N) gauge group.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Piotr Korcyl

Starting from N=2 supersymmetric theories in 2 dimensions, we formulate a novel time-dependent supersymmetric quantum theory where the R-charge is twisted along the time. The invariance of the supersymmetric index under variations of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-22 Sergio Cecotti , Cumrun Vafa

We give a physical explanation of the Kontsevich-Soibelman wall-crossing formula for the BPS spectrum in Seiberg-Witten theories. In the process we give an exact description of the BPS instanton corrections to the hyperkahler metric of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Davide Gaiotto , Gregory W. Moore , Andrew Neitzke

In this paper we describe the Seiberg-Witten invariants, which have been introduced by Witten, for manifolds with $b_+=1$. In this case the invariants depend on a chamber structure, and there exists a universal wall crossing formula. For…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Christian Okonek , Andrei Teleman

In $D=4,N=2$ theories on $R^{3,1}$, the index receives contributions not only from single-particle BPS states, counted by the BPS indices, but also from multi-particle states made of BPS constituents. In a recent work [arXiv:1406.2360], a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Boris Pioline

We count the Bethe states of quantum integrable models with twisted boundary conditions using the Witten index of 2d supersymmetric gauge theories. For multi-component models solvable by the nested Bethe ansatz, the result is a novel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-12 Hongfei Shu , Peng Zhao , Rui-Dong Zhu , Hao Zou

We compute the Witten index of the Berenstein-Maldacena-Nastase matrix quantum mechanics, which counts the number of ground states as well as the difference between the numbers of bosonic and fermionic BPS states with nonzero spins. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-10 Chi-Ming Chang

We discuss spontaneous supersymmetry breaking in the N=1 Wess-Zumino model in two dimensions on the lattice using Wilson fermions and the fermion loop formulation. In that formulation the fermion sign problem related to the vanishing of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-11-28 David Baumgartner , Kyle Steinhauer , Urs Wenger

We introduce a new wall-crossing formula which combines and generalizes the Cecotti-Vafa and Kontsevich-Soibelman formulas for supersymmetric 2d and 4d systems respectively. This 2d-4d wall-crossing formula governs the wall-crossing of BPS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Davide Gaiotto , Gregory W. Moore , Andrew Neitzke

BPS states in N=4 supersymmetric SU(N) gauge theories in four dimensions can be represented as planar string networks with ends lying on D3-branes. We introduce several protected indices which capture information on the spectrum and various…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Ashoke Sen

Index theorem is formulated in noncommutative geometry with finite degrees of freedom by using Ginsparg-Wilson relation. It is extended to the case where the gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken. Dynamical analysis about topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Hajime Aoki

We consider BPS states in a large class of d=4, N=2 field theories, obtained by reducing six-dimensional (2,0) superconformal field theories on Riemann surfaces, with defect operators inserted at points of the Riemann surface. Further…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-26 Davide Gaiotto , Gregory W. Moore , Andrew Neitzke

We derive supersymmetric quantum mechanics of n BPS objects with 3n position degrees of freedom and 4n fermionic partners with SO(4) R-symmetry. The potential terms, essential and sufficient for the index problem for non-threshold BPS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-20 Heeyeon Kim , Jaemo Park , Zhaolong Wang , Piljin Yi

We study the BPS spectrum of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge group $SU(2)$ and a massive adjoint hypermultiplet, which has an extremely intricate structure with infinite spectrum in all chambers…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 Philipp Rüter , Richard J. Szabo

Let $M$ be a compact Riemannian manifold endowed with an isometric action of a compact Lie group. The method of the Witten deformation is used to compute the virtual representation-valued equivariant index of a transversally elliptic, first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Igor Prokhorenkov , Ken Richardson

The twisted index of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories on $S^1 \times \Sigma$ has an algebro-geometric interpretation as the Witten index of an effective supersymmetric quantum mechanics. In this paper, we consider the contributions to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-23 Mathew Bullimore , Andrea E. V. Ferrari , Heeyeon Kim , Guangyu Xu

We construct virtual cycles on moduli spaces of perturbed gauged Witten equation over a fixed smooth r -spin curve, under the framework of [TX15]. Together with the wall-crossing formula proved in the companion paper [TX19], it completes…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Gang Tian , Guangbo Xu

We apply the wall crossing structure formalism of Kontsevich and Soibelman to Seiberg-Witten integrable systems associated to pure $SU(3)$. This gives an algorithm for computing the Donaldson-Thomas invariants, which correspond to BPS…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Qiang Wang

We study three-dimensional ${\mathcal N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on ${\Sigma_g \times S^1}$ with a topological twist along $\Sigma_g$, a genus-$g$ Riemann surface. The twisted supersymmetric index at genus $g$ and the correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Cyril Closset , Heeyeon Kim

Wall-crossing formulas for various flavors of elliptic genus can be obtained using master spaces. We give a topological criterion which implies that such wall-crossing formulas are trivial. Applications are given for: GIT quotients,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Henry Liu