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Three dimensional field theories admit disorder line operators, dubbed vortex loop operators. They are defined by the path integral in the presence of prescribed singularities along the defect line. We study half-BPS vortex loop operators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-05 Nadav Drukker , Takuya Okuda , Filippo Passerini

We study the dual gravity description of supersymmetric Wilson loops whose expectation value is unity. They are described by calibrated surfaces that end on the boundary of anti de-Sitter space and are pseudo-holomorphic with respect to an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Dymarsky , S. Gubser , Z. Guralnik , J. Maldacena

We consider the vacuum geometry of supersymmetric theories with 4 supercharges, on a flat toroidal geometry. The 2 dimensional vacuum geometry is known to be captured by the $tt^*$ geometry. In the case of 3 dimensions, the parameter space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Sergio Cecotti , Davide Gaiotto , Cumrun Vafa

We consider correlation functions of topologically twisted, $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge group ${\rm SU}(2)$ and $N_f\leq 3$ massive hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation. For a smooth, compact,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 Elias Furrer , Jan Manschot

When placed on four-manifolds, $ \mathcal{N} = 2 $ gauge theories couple to topological invariants of the background via two functions $ A $ and $ B $. General considerations allow for these functions to be fixed in terms of the Coulomb…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Renjan Rajan John , Sujoy Mahato , Madhusudhan Raman

We study supersymmetric Wilson loops from a geometrical perspective. To this end, we propose a new formulation of these operators in terms of an integral form associated to the immersion of the loop into a supermanifold. This approach…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 C. A. Cremonini , P. A. Grassi , S. Penati

We generalize our picture in [arXiv:0904.1744], and consider a pure abelian gauge theory on a four-manifold with nonlocal operators of every codimension arbitrarily and simultaneously inserted. We explicitly show that (i) the theory enjoys…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-07 Meng-Chwan Tan

We study two-dimensional $\mathcal{N}{=}(0,2)$ supersymmetric gauged linear sigma models (GLSMs) using supersymmetric localization. We consider $\mathcal{N}{=}(0,2)$ theories with an $R$-symmetry, which can always be defined on curved space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-04 Cyril Closset , Wei Gu , Bei Jia , Eric Sharpe

We study the six-dimensional (2,0) superconformal field theory on S^1 x S^2 x M via compactification to five dimensions, where M is a three-manifold. Twisted along M, the five-dimensional theory has a half of N = (2,2) supersymmetry on S^2,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Junya Yagi

We study the three-dimensional lens partition function for $\mathcal N=2$ supersymmetric gauge dual theories on $S^3/\mathbb{Z}_r$ by using the gauge/YBE correspondence. This correspondence relates supersymmetric gauge theories to exactly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-31 Deniz N. Bozkurt , Ilmar Gahramanov , Mustafa Mullahasanoglu

We propose a general strategy to build three-dimensional gauge theories with four supercharges which enjoy a supersymmetry enhancement in the IR. The resulting IR SCFTs admit topological twists with particularly nice properties, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-01 Davide Gaiotto , Heeyeon Kim

We reduce the computation of three point function of three spinning operators with arbitrary polarizations to a statistical mechanics problem via the hexagon formalism. The central building block of these correlation functions is the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Carlos Bercini , Vasco Goncalves , Alexandre Homrich , Pedro Vieira

We use localization techniques to study several duality proposals for supersymmetric gauge theories in three dimensions reminiscent of Seiberg duality. We compare the partition functions of dual theories deformed by real mass terms and FI…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-13 Anton Kapustin , Brian Willett , Itamar Yaakov

Using ideas from the gauge theory approach to the geometric Langlands program, we revisit supersymmetric localization with monopole operators in 3d $\mathcal{N} = 4$ supersymmetric gauge theories subject to $\Omega$-deformation. The key…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-25 Spencer Tamagni

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

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 study correlation functions of local operators and Wilson loop expectation values in the planar limit of a 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal ${\rm SU}(N)$ YM theory with hypermultiplets in the symmetric and antisymmetric representations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-06 Nikolay Bobev , Pieter-Jan De Smet , Xuao Zhang

In this paper we apply supersymmetric localization to study gauged linear sigma models (GLSMs) describing supermanifold target spaces. We use the localization method to show that A-twisted GLSM correlation functions for certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Wei Gu , Hao Zou

The theory of Wilson loops for gauge theories with unitary gauge groups is formulated in the language of symmetric functions. The main objects in this theory are two generating functions, which are related to each other by the involution…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-20 Wolfgang Mück

Highest-weight representations of infinite dimensional Lie algebras and Hilbert schemes of points are considered, together with the applications of these concepts to partition functions, which are most useful in physics. Partition functions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 A. A. Bytsenko , E. Elizalde