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We study 5d $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric field theories on closed five-manifolds $\mathcal{M}_5$ which are principal circle bundles over simply-connected K\"ahler four-manifolds, $\mathcal{M}_4$, equipped with the Donaldson-Witten twist.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-01 Cyril Closset , Horia Magureanu

Recent years have witnessed lots of progress in the computation of supersymmetric partition functions of SCFTs on curved manifolds via localization. The twisted partition function on product manifolds of the form $S^1 \times \Sigma_g$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-01 Chiara Toldo

Motivated by the question of exploring the "theory space" of quantum field theories, we review the concept of "decomposing" and "gluing" quantum field theories. We explain this in the context of three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-25 Masahito Yamazaki

The low energy effective couplings of a four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theory to topological invariants of the background gravitational field are described by two functions $A$ and $B$. These two functions play an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Jan Manschot , Gregory W. Moore , Xinyu Zhang

The relation between supersymmetric gauge theories in four dimensions and quantum spin systems is exploited to find an explicit formula for the Jost function of the $N$ site $\mathfrak{sl}_{2}$ $XXX$ spin chain (for infinite dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-23 Norton Lee , Nikita Nekrasov

Supersymmetric gauge theories have played a central role in applications of quantum field theory to mathematics. Topologically twisted supersymmetric gauge theories often admit a rigorous mathematical description: for example, the Donaldson…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Kevin Costello , Claudia Scheimbauer

We develop new techniques for computing exact correlation functions of a class of local operators, including certain monopole operators, in three-dimensional $\mathcal{N} = 4$ abelian gauge theories that have superconformal infrared limits.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-18 Mykola Dedushenko , Yale Fan , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

We compute exactly the partition function of two dimensional N=(2,2) gauge theories on S^2 and show that it admits two dual descriptions: either as an integral over the Coulomb branch or as a sum over vortex and anti-vortex excitations on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-04 Nima Doroud , Jaume Gomis , Bruno Le Floch , Sungjay Lee

We discover a modular property of supersymmetric partition functions of supersymmetric theories with R-symmetry in four dimensions. This modular property is, in a sense, the generalization of the modular invariance of the supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Abhijit Gadde

We present a new supersymmetric index for three-dimensional ${\cal N}=2$ gauge theories defined on $\Sigma \times S^1$, where $\Sigma$ is a spindle, with twist or anti-twist for the $R$-symmetry background gauge field. We start examining…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-20 Matteo Inglese , Dario Martelli , Antonio Pittelli

We study globally supersymmetric 3d gauge theories on curved manifolds by describing the coupling of 3d topological gauge theories, with both Yang-Mills and Chern-Simons terms in the action, to background topological gravity. In our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-16 Camillo Imbimbo , Dario Rosa

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 consider topologically twisted $\mathcal{N}=2$, $SU(2)$ gauge theory with a massive adjoint hypermultiplet on a smooth, compact four-manifold $X$. A consistent formulation requires coupling the theory to a ${\rm Spin}^c$ structure, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-20 Jan Manschot , Gregory W. Moore

We explicitly apply localization results to study the interpolation between three and two dimensional mirror symmetry for Abelian gauge theories with four supercharges. We first use the ellipsoid S_b^3 partition functions to verify the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Heng-Yu Chen , Hsiao-Yi Chen , Jun-Kai Ho

We study partition functions of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ U(N) gauge theories on compact manifolds which are $S^1$ fibrations over $S^2$. We show that the partition functions are free field correlators of vertex operators and screening charges of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-02 Anton Nedelin , Fabrizio Nieri , Maxim Zabzine

We rederive the recently introduced $N=2$ topological gauge theories, representing the Euler characteristic of moduli spaces ${\cal M}$ of connections, from supersymmetric quantum mechanics on the infinite dimensional spaces ${\cal A}/{\cal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 M Blau , G Thompson

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

We show that $U(N)$ $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric gauge theories on $S^{3}$ with $N_{f}$ massive fundamental hypermultiplets and with a Fayet-Iliopoulos (FI) term are solvable in terms of generalized Selberg integrals. Finite $N$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-31 Miguel Tierz

We construct the one-dimensional topological sector of $\mathcal N = 6$ ABJ(M) theory and study its relation with the mass-deformed partition function on $S^3$. Supersymmetric localization provides an exact representation of this partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-17 Nicola Gorini , Luca Griguolo , Luigi Guerrini , Silvia Penati , Domenico Seminara , Paolo Soresina

We prove conjecture due to Erickson-Semenoff-Zarembo and Drukker-Gross which relates supersymmetric circular Wilson loop operators in the N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with a Gaussian matrix model. We also compute the partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-21 Vasily Pestun