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We give a pedagogical introduction to the study of supersymmetric partition functions of 3D $\mathcal{N}{=}2$ supersymmetric Chern-Simons-matter theories (with an $R$-symmetry) on half-BPS closed three-manifolds---including $S^3$, $S^2…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Cyril Closset , Heeyeon Kim

We construct invertible field theories generalizing abelian prequantum spin Chern-Simons theory to manifolds of dimension 4k+3 endowed with a Wu structure of degree 2k+2. After analysing the anomalies of a certain discrete symmetry, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-13 Samuel Monnier

We couple Chern-Simons gauge theory to 3-dimensional topological gravity with the aim of investigating its quantum topological invariance. We derive the relevant BRST rules and Batalin-Vilkovisky action. Standard BRST transformations of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-09 Camillo Imbimbo

We study 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on closed oriented Seifert manifold---circle bundles over an orbifold Riemann surface---, with a gauge group G given by a product of simply-connected and/or unitary Lie groups. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Cyril Closset , Heeyeon Kim , Brian Willett

The path integral for the partition function of Chern-Simons gauge theory with a compact gauge group is evaluated on a general Seifert 3-manifold. This extends previous results and relies on abelianisation, a background field method and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-31 Matthias Blau , Keita Kaniba Mady , K. S. Narain , George Thompson

We reconsider Chern-Simons gauge theory on a Seifert manifold M (the total space of a nontrivial circle bundle over a Riemann surface). When M is a Seifert manifold, Lawrence and Rozansky have shown from the exact solution of Chern-Simons…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 Chris Beasley , Edward Witten

This is the 10th article in the collection of reviews "Exact results on N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories", ed. J.Teschner. It reviews correspondences between three-dimensional gauge theories and complex Chern-Simons theory on suitable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-23 Tudor Dimofte

We consider the 4-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ Lie superconformal algebra and search for completely "symmetric" (in the graded sense) 3-index invariant tensors. The solution we find is unique and we show that the corresponding invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-31 Camillo Imbimbo , Davide Rovere , Alison Warman

Three-dimensional Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory has the peculiar property that its one-form symmetry defects have non-trivial braiding, namely they are charged under the same symmetry they generate, which is then anomalous. This poses a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-07 Riccardo Argurio , Francesco Benini , Matteo Bertolini , Giovanni Galati , Pierluigi Niro

We describe special supersymmetric gauge theories in three, five, seven and nine dimensions, whose compactification on two-, four-, six- and eight-folds produces a supersymmetric quantum mechanics on moduli spaces of holomorphic bundles…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 L. Baulieu , A. Losev , N. Nekrasov

Mixed anomalies, higher form symmetries, two-group symmetries and non-invertible symmetries have proved to be useful in providing non-trivial constraints on the dynamics of quantum field theories. We study mixed anomalies involving discrete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 Noppadol Mekareeya , Matteo Sacchi

We study Seiberg-like dualities in three dimensional N=2 supersymmetric theories, emphasizing Chern-Simons terms for the global symmetry group, which affect contact terms in two-point functions of global currents and are essential to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-15 Francesco Benini , Cyril Closset , Stefano Cremonesi

Starting from a $D=3$, $N=4$ supersymmetric theory for matter fields, a twist with a Grassmann parity change is defined which maps the theory into a gauge fixed, abelian $BF$ theory on curved 3-manifolds. After adding surface terms to this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 R. Brooks , J. -G. Demers , C. Lucchesi

The 3d $A$-model is a two-dimensional approach to the computation of supersymmetric observables of three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories. In principle, it allows us to compute half-BPS partition functions on any…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-22 Cyril Closset , Elias Furrer , Adam Keyes , Osama Khlaif

We provide a general formula for the partition function of three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories placed on $S^2 \times S^1$ with a topological twist along $S^2$, which can be interpreted as an index for chiral states of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-29 Francesco Benini , Alberto Zaffaroni

We consider three-dimensional ${\mathcal N}=2$ supersymmetric field theories defined on general complex-valued backgrounds of Euclidean new minimal supergravity admitting two Killing spinors of opposite $R$-charges. We compute partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-17 Matteo Inglese , Dario Martelli , Antonio Pittelli

We analyse the classical moduli spaces of supersymmetric vacua of 3d N=2 Chern-Simons quiver gauge theories. We show quite generally that the moduli space of the 3d theory always contains a baryonic branch of a parent 4d N=1 quiver gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-30 Dario Martelli , James Sparks

We study aspects of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on the product of a line and a Riemann surface. Performing a topological twist along the Riemann surface leads to an effective supersymmetric quantum mechanics on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-29 Mathew Bullimore , Andrea E. V. Ferrari

We consider $AdS_3$ $N$-extended Chern-Simons supergravity (\`a la Achucarro-Tonswend) and we study its gauge symmetries. We promote those gauge symmetries to a BRST symmetry and we perform its quantization by choosing suitable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 L. Andrianopoli , B. L. Cerchiai , P. A. Grassi , M. Trigiante

We study a supersymmetric partition function of topological vortices in 3d N=4,3 gauge theories on R^2 x S^1, and use it to explore Seiberg-like dualities with Fayet-Iliopoulos deformations. We provide a detailed support of these dualities…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-04-19 Hee-Cheol Kim , Jungmin Kim , Seok Kim , Kanghoon Lee
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