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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

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 introduce the topologically twisted index for four-dimensional $\mathcal N=1$ gauge theories quantized on ${\rm AdS}_2 \times S^1$. We compute the index by applying supersymmetric localization to partition functions of vector and chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-24 Daniele Iannotti , Antonio Pittelli

We compute, in the large $N$ limit, the topologically twisted index of the 3d $T[SU(N)]$ theory, namely the partition function on $\Sigma_{\mathfrak{g}} \times S^1$, with a topological twist on the Riemann surface $\Sigma_{\mathfrak{g}}$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-16 Lorenzo Coccia

We explore the geometric interpretation of the twisted index of 3d ${\mathcal N} =4$ gauge theories on $S^1\times \Sigma$ where $\Sigma$ is a closed Riemann surface. We focus on a rich class of supersymmetric quiver gauge theories that have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Mathew Bullimore , Andrea E. V. Ferrari , Heeyeon Kim

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

We propose a new fermionic sum formula for the Macdonald index of a class of Argyres-Douglas theories. The formula arises naturally from a three-dimensional topological field theory obtained via a twisted dimensional reduction of the 4d…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-30 Heeyeon Kim , Hongseok Kim , Jaewon Song

We provide a formula for the partition function of five-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ gauge theories on $\mathcal{M}_4 \times S^1$, topologically twisted along $\mathcal{M}_4$ in the presence of general background magnetic fluxes, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-28 Seyed Morteza Hosseini , Itamar Yaakov , Alberto Zaffaroni

We study the $S^1\times\Sigma_{\mathfrak g}$ topologically twisted index and the squashed sphere partition function of various 3d $\mathcal N\geq2$ holographic superconformal field theories arising from M2-branes. Employing numerical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-06 Nikolay Bobev , Junho Hong , Valentin Reys

We study the twisted indices of $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric gauge theories in three dimensions on spatial $S^{2}$ with an angular momentum refinement. We demonstrate factorisation of the index into holomorphic blocks for the $T[SU(N)]$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-01 Samuel Crew , Nick Dorey , Daniel Zhang

We propose a new partially topological theory in three dimensions which couples Chern-Simons theory to matter. The 3-manifolds needed for this construction admit transverse holomorphic foliation (THF). The theory depends only on the choice…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-29 Mina Aganagic , Kevin Costello , Jacob McNamara , Cumrun Vafa

We conjecture, and show in a plethora of examples, that the sphere partition function of 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ Chern-Simons-matter theories equals a sum of twisted traces on tensor products of Verma modules over the quantization of the moduli…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-21 Leonardo Santilli

We study three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric Chern-Simons-matter gauge theories with a one-form symmetry in the $A$-model formalism on $\Sigma_g\times S^1$. We explicitly compute expectation values of topological line operators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-26 Cyril Closset , Elias Furrer , Osama Khlaif

We study the topologically twisted index of $\mathcal{N}=6$ supersymmetric Chern-Simons matter theory with $U(N)_k \times U(N)_{-k}$ gauge group in the 't Hooft limit, that is, for $N, k \, \to \infty$ with $\lambda=N/k$ fixed. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-25 Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Yu Xin

We study the twisted index of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on $S^1 \times \Sigma$ in the presence of a real FI parameter deformation. This parameter induces a 1d FI parameter for the effective supersymmetric quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-03 Mathew Bullimore , Andrea E. V. Ferrari , Heeyeon Kim

We provide general formulae for the topologically twisted index of a general three-dimensional ${\cal N}\geq 2$ gauge theory with an M-theory or massive type IIA dual in the large $N$ limit. The index is defined as the supersymmetric path…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-13 Seyed Morteza Hosseini , Alberto Zaffaroni

We study the topologically twisted index of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories with unitary gauge groups. We implement a Gr\"obner basis algorithm for computing the $\Sigma_g\times S^1$ index explicitly and exactly in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Cyril Closset , Osama Khlaif

We generalize the framework introduced by Kapustin et al. for doing path integral localization in Chern-Simons theory to work on any Seifert manifold. This is done by topologically twisting the supersymmetric theory considered by Kapustin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-30 Johan Kallen

In this note we present a formula for the equivariant index of the cohomological complex obtained from localization of $\mathcal{N}=2$ SYM on simply-connected compact four-manifolds with a $T^2$-action. Knowledge of said index is essential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-20 Roman Mauch , Lorenzo Ruggeri

We show that the approaches to integrable systems via 4d Chern-Simons theory and via symmetry reductions of the anti-self-dual Yang-Mills equations are closely related, at least classically. Following a suggestion of Kevin Costello, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-31 Roland Bittleston , David Skinner
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