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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

We study the partition functions of topologically twisted 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories on a hemisphere spacetime with boundary $HS^2 \times S^1$. We show that the partition function may be localised to either the Higgs branch or the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-30 Samuel Crew , Daniel Zhang , Boan Zhao

We study three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on $\mathcal{M}_{g,p}$, an oriented circle bundle of degree $p$ over a closed Riemann surface, $\Sigma_g$. We compute the $\mathcal{M}_{g,p}$ supersymmetric partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Cyril Closset , Heeyeon Kim , Brian Willett

We propose a new prescription for computing the Nekrasov partition functions of five-dimensional theories with eight supercharges realized by gauging non-perturbative flavor symmetries of three five-dimensional superconformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Hirotaka Hayashi , Kantaro Ohmori

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 present a simple closed form expression for the topologically twisted index of the ABJM theory as a function of the magnetic fluxes and complex chemical potentials valid at fixed $k$ and to all orders in the $1/N$ expansion. This in turn…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-20 Nikolay Bobev , Junho Hong , Valentin Reys

We evaluate the Nekrasov partition function of 5d gauge theories engineered by webs of 5-branes, using the refined topological vertex on the dual Calabi-Yau threefolds. The theories include certain non-Lagrangian theories such as the T_N…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Hirotaka Hayashi , Hee-Cheol Kim , Takahiro Nishinaka

We study the large $N$ limit of twisted partition functions on $\mathcal{M}_{g,p}$, the $S^1$ bundle of degree $p$ over a Riemann surface of genus $g$, for 3D $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories arising as low-energy limit of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Dongmin Gang , Nakwoo Kim

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 compute the supersymmetric partition function of $\mathcal{N}{=}1$ supersymmetric gauge theories with an $R$-symmetry on $\mathcal{M}_4 \cong \mathcal{M}_{g,p}\times S^1$, a principal elliptic fiber bundle of degree $p$ over a genus-$g$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Cyril Closset , Heeyeon Kim , Brian Willett

We consider $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric pure gauge theories on toric K\"ahler manifolds, with particular emphasis on $\mathbb{CP}^2$. By choosing a vector generating a $U(1)$ action inside the torus of the manifold, we construct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-16 Diego Rodriguez-Gomez , Johannes Schmude

Starting from a theory on $S^3\times S^3$ and dimensionally reducing, we compute the full partition function, including flux and instanton contributions, for an $\mathcal{N}=1$ theory of vector multiplets and hypermultiplets on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-04 Lorenzo Ruggeri

In four dimensional string theories with N=4 and N=8 supersymmetries one can often define twisted index in a subspace of the moduli space which captures additional information on the partition function than the ones contained in the usual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-25 Ashoke Sen

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 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 the twisted index of 4d $\mathcal{N}$ = 2 class S theories on a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold $M_3$. Via 6d picture, the index can be written in terms of topological invariants called analytic torsions twisted by irreducible flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Jin-Beom Bae , Dongmin Gang , Kimyeong Lee

We consider 5d $\mathcal{N}=1$ SU(2) super Yang-Mills theory on $X\times S^1$, with $X$ a closed smooth four-manifold. A partial topological twisting along $X$ renders the theory formally independent of the metric on $X$. The theory depends…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-30 Heeyeon Kim , Jan Manschot , Gregory W. Moore , Runkai Tao , Xinyu Zhang

We derive the relation between the Hilbert space of certain geometries under the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization and the perturbative prepotentials for the supersymmetric five-dimensional SU(N) gauge theories with massive fundamental matters…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yui Noma

We provide a general formula for the refined topologically twisted index of $\mathcal{N}=1$ gauge theories living on the world-volume of D3-branes at conical Calabi-Yau singularities in the Cardy limit. The index is defined as the partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-25 Seyed Morteza Hosseini , Kiril Hristov , Alberto Zaffaroni

We consider topological twists of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric QCD with gauge group SU(2) and $N_f\leq 3$ fundamental hypermultiplets. The twists are labelled by a choice of background fluxes for the flavour group, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-21 Johannes Aspman , Elias Furrer , Jan Manschot