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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 study partition function of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric field theory on $T^2 \times S^2$. By applying supersymmetry localization, we show that the $T^2 \times S^2$ partition function is given by elliptic genus of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-17 Masazumi Honda , Yutaka Yoshida

An exact formula for partition functions in 3d field theories was recently suggested by Jafferis, and Hama, Hosomichi, and Lee. These functions are expressed in terms of specific $q$-hypergeometric integrals whose key building block is the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-28 F. A. H. Dolan , V. P. Spiridonov , G. S. Vartanov

We investigate 3d $\mathscr{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on $S^1 \times S^2$ and the corresponding 2d effective field theories arising in the limit of small ratio of radii, $\beta=R_{S^1}/R_{S^2}\to 0$. We evaluate the exact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Antonio Amariti , Jun Nian , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Alessia Segati

We study the supersymmetric partition function of a 2d linear $\sigma$-model whose target space is a torus with a complex structure that varies along one worldsheet direction and a K\"ahler modulus that varies along the other. This setup is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Ori J. Ganor , Hao-Yu Sun , Nesty R. Torres-Chicon

We study four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric $U(N)$ gauge theory with $2N$ fundamental hypermultiplets in the self-dual $\Omega$-background. The partition function simplifies at special points of the parameter space and is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-19 Xinyu Zhang

We discuss the large $N$ factorization properties of five-dimensional supersymmetric partition functions for CFT with a holographic dual. We consider partition functions on manifolds of the form $\mathcal{M}= \mathcal{M}_3 \times…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-19 Seyed Morteza Hosseini , Itamar Yaakov , Alberto Zaffaroni

We construct 4D $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories on an infinite family of 4D toric manifolds with the topology of connected sums of $S^2 \times S^2$. These theories are constructed through the dimensional reduction along a non-trivial $U(1)$-fiber…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Guido Festuccia , Jian Qiu , Jacob Winding , Maxim Zabzine

We apply localization techniques to compute the partition function of a two-dimensional N=(2,2) R-symmetric theory of vector and chiral multiplets on S^2. The path integral reduces to a sum over topological sectors of a matrix integral over…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-27 Francesco Benini , Stefano Cremonesi

We compute the supersymmetric partition function of the six-dimensional $(2,0)$ theory of type $A_{N-1}$ on $S^1 \times S^5$ in the presence of both codimension two and codimension four defects. We concentrate on a limit of the partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-28 Mathew Bullimore , Hee-Cheol Kim

We calculate partition function and correlation functions in A-twisted 2d $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ theories and topologically twisted 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories containing adjoint chiral multiplet with particular choices of $R$-charges and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Hee-Joong Chung , Yutaka Yoshida

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

We use supersymmetric localization to calculate correlation functions of half-BPS local operators in 3d ${\cal N} = 4$ superconformal field theories whose Lagrangian descriptions consist of vectormultiplets coupled to hypermultiplets. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-13 Mykola Dedushenko , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

In the $(2,5)$ minimal model, the partition function for genus $g=2$ Riemann surfaces is given by a $5$-tuple of functions with appropriate transformation under the mapping class group. These functions generalise the two Rogers-Ramanujan…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-17 Marianne Leitner

The Witten index of the $(2,0)$-theory compactified on spaces of the form $S^3/\Gamma\times S^2$, with a freely acting group $\Gamma$, and with external string sources implemented via timelike surface operator insertions, is expressed in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-21 Emil Albrychiewicz , Andrés Franco Valiente , Ori Ganor

We study the partition function of the N=6 supersymmetric U(N_1)_k x U(N_2)_{-k} Chern-Simons-matter (CSM) theory, also known as the ABJ theory. For this purpose, we first compute the partition function of the U(N_1) x U(N_2) lens space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-06 Hidetoshi Awata , Shinji Hirano , Masaki Shigemori

We study properties of the full partition function for the $U(1)$ 5D $\mathcal{N}=2^*$ gauge theory with adjoint hypermultiplet of mass $M$. This theory is ultimately related to abelian 6D (2,0) theory. We construct the full…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Jian Qiu , Luigi Tizzano , Jacob Winding , Maxim Zabzine

We study 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories with a co-dimension two full surface operator, which exhibit a fascinating interplay of supersymmetric gauge theories, equivariant Gromov-Witten theory and geometric representation theory. For pure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-25 Satoshi Nawata

We discuss what topological data must be provided to define topologically twisted partition functions of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric field theories. The original example of Donaldson-Witten theory depends only on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-22 Gregory W. Moore , Vivek Saxena , Ranveer Kumar Singh

In the framework of the AdS/CFT duality, we calculate the supersymmetric partition function of the superconformal field theories living in the world volume of either $N$ $M2$-branes or $N$ $M5$-branes. We used the dual supergravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-09 Pedro J. Silva