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We consider four-dimensional Omega-deformed N=2 supersymmetric SU(2) gauge theory on A1 space and its lift to five dimensions. We find that the partition functions can be reproduced via special geometry and the holomorphic anomaly equation.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-08 Daniel Krefl , Sheng-Yu Darren Shih

An easy-to-implement scheme to split self-collimated acoustic beams in sonic crystals (SCs) is proposed by introducing line-defects into SCs, by which an incoming self-collimated beam can be split into a 90 degree-bended one and a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-01-01 Bo Li , Jun-Jun Guan , Ke Deng , Heping Zhao

We introduce a new class of sine-Gordon models, for which interaction term is present in a region different from the domain over which quadratic part is defined. We develop a novel non-perturbative approach for calculating partition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-06-13 Adilet Imambekov , Vladimir Gritsev , Eugene Demler

Optical periodic structures exhibiting a degenerate band edge (DBE) are of significant interest for various applications such as switching, sensing, high-power amplification, and lasing. At the edge of the bandgap in such structures, a…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-23 Kessem Zamir Abramovich , Jacob Scheuer

Understanding, predicting, and controlling physical processes often relies on the analysis of the dynamics of partial differential equations (PDEs). In this context, the present study offers an in-depth investigation into the nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 J. M. Escorcia

We present a prototype for Wilsonian analysis of asymptotics of supersymmetric partition functions of non-abelian gauge theories. Localization allows expressing such partition functions as an integral over a BPS moduli space. When the limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-18 Arash Arabi Ardehali , Junho Hong

Gauge theories in the presence of codimension two vortex defects are known to be related to the theories on orbifolds. By using this relation we study the localized path integrals of 2D N=(2,2) SUSY gauge theories with point-like vortex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-08 Kazuo Hosomichi

We explore the $\textit{difference Langlands correspondence}$ using the four dimensional ${\mathcal{N}}=2$ super-QCD. Surface defects and surface observables play the crucial role. As an application, we give the first construction of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-06 Saebyeok Jeong , Norton Lee , Nikita Nekrasov

In this paper we briefly review the main idea of the localization technique and its extension suitable in supersymmetric gauge field theory. We analyze the partition function of the vector multiplets with supercharges and its blocks on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-25 A. A. Bytsenko , M. Chaichian , A. E. Gonçalves

Partition function of beta-gamma systems on the orbifolds C^2/Z_N and C^3/Z_M x Z_N are obtained as the invariant part of that on the respective affine spaces, by lifting the geometric action of the orbifold group to the fields.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Chandrasekhar Bhamidipati , Koushik Ray

We study a deformation of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation recently derived in the context of deformation of hierarchies of integrable systems. This systematic method also led to known integrable equations such as the Camassa-Holm…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-08-24 Alexis Arnaudon

We consider the Seiberg-Witten solution of pure $\mathcal{N} =2$ gauge theory in four dimensions, with gauge group $SU(N)$. A simple exact series expansion for the dependence of the $2 (N-1)$ Seiberg-Witten periods $a_I(u), a_{DI}(u)$ on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Eric D'Hoker , Thomas T. Dumitrescu , Emily Nardoni

Considering bilayer systems as extensions of the planar ones by an internal space of two discrete points, we use the ideas of Noncommutative Geometry to construct the gauge theories for these systems. After integrating over the discrete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Varghese John , Nguyen Ai Viet , Kameshwar C. Wali

We study the partition function of the free Sp(N) conformal field theory recently conjectured to be dual to asymptotically de Sitter higher-spin gravity in four-dimensions. We compute the partition function of this CFT on a round sphere as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-13 Dionysios Anninos , Frederik Denef , Daniel Harlow

A recent result has demonstrated that the Bethe partition function always lower bounds the true partition function of binary, log-supermodular graphical models. We demonstrate that these results can be extended to other interesting classes…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Nicholas Ruozzi

In the conformal field theories given by the Ising and Dirac models, when the system is in the ground state, the moments of the reduced density matrix of two disjoint intervals and of its partial transpose have been written as partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-06 Tamara Grava , Andrew P. Kels , Erik Tonni

We propose a two-level structural optimization method for obtaining an approximate optimal shape of piecewise developable surface without specifying internal boundaries between surface patches. The condition for developability of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Makoto Ohsaki , Kentaro Hayakawa , Jingyao Zhang

We use supersymmetric localization to compute the partition function of N=2 super-Yang-Mills on S^4 in the presence of a gauged linear sigma model surface defect on a S^2 subspace. The result takes the form of a standard partition function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-02 Joel Lamy-Poirier

We compute the ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric partition function of a gauge theory on a four-dimensional compact toric manifold via equivariant localization. The result is given by a piecewise constant function of the K\"ahler form with jumps…

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