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Certain scattering amplitudes in the gravitational sector of type II string theory on K3 x T^2 are found to be computed by correlation functions of the N=4 topological string. This analysis extends the already known results for K3 by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Antoniadis , S. Hohenegger , K. S. Narain

We study the perturbative large-$N$ expansion of the round three-sphere partition function in a class of M2-brane theories, including flavored SYM and ABJM theories as well as more general 3d theories admitting dual $(p,q)$ 5-brane web…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Kiril Hristov , Naotaka Kubo , Yi Pang

We prove that 3d superconformal index for general $\mathcal N=2$ U(N) gauge group with fundamentals and anti-fundmentals with/without Chern-Simons terms is factorized into vortex and anti-vortex partition function. We show that for simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-19 Chiung Hwang , Hee-Cheol Kim , Jaemo Park

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

The partition function of type IIA and B strings on R^6xK3, in the T^4/Z_2 orbifold limit, is explicitly computed as a modular invariant sum over spin strutures required by perturbative unitarity in order to extend the analysis to include…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-15 L. Dolan , M. Langham

We construct a large class of gauge theories with extended supersymmetry on four-dimensional manifolds with a Killing vector field and isolated fixed points. We extend previous results limited to super Yang-Mills theory to general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Guido Festuccia , Anastasios Gorantis , Antonio Pittelli , Konstantina Polydorou , Lorenzo Ruggeri

Using supersymmetric localization, we show that the partition function of four-dimensional superconformal gauge theories - computed as a trace over BPS states without the insertion of $(-1)^F$ - is perturbatively protected and piecewise…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 Alejandro Cabo-Bizet

We derive the partition functions of the Schwarz-type four-dimensional topological half-flat 2-form gravity model on K3-surface or T^4 up to on-shell one-loop corrections. In this model the bosonic moduli spaces describe an equivalent class…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Mitsuko Abe

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 study $\mathbb{Z}_N$ one-form center symmetries in four-dimensional gauge theories using the symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT). In this context, the associated TFT in the five-dimensional bulk is the BF model. We revisit its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-27 Zhihao Duan , Qiang Jia , Sungjay Lee

We derive explicit formulae to compute the $a$ and $c$ central charges of four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) directly from Coulomb branch related quantities. The formulae apply at arbitrary rank. We also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Mario Martone

We show how to make a topological string theory starting from an $N=4$ superconformal theory. The critical dimension for this theory is $\hat c= 2$ ($c=6$). It is shown that superstrings (in both the RNS and GS formulations) and critical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Nathan Berkovits , Cumrun Vafa

We provide the geometrical meaning of the ${\cal N}=4$ superconformal index. With this interpretation, the ${\cal N}=4$ superconformal index can be realized as the partition function on a Scherk-Schwarz deformed background. We apply the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Satoshi Nawata

We derive exact formulae for the partition function and the expectation values of Wilson/'t Hooft loops, thus directly checking their S-duality transformations. We focus on a special class of N=2 gauge theories on S^4 with fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Francesco Fucito , Jose Francisco Morales , Rubik Poghossian , Daniel Ricci Pacifici

We study the supersymmetric partition function on $S^1 \times L(r, 1)$, or the lens space index of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories and their connection to two-dimensional chiral algebras. We primarily focus on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Martin Fluder , Jaewon Song

This is the 9th article in the collection of reviews "Exact results on N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories", ed. J.Teschner. We review the exact computations in 3D N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories on the round or squashed $S^3$ and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-07 Kazuo Hosomichi

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

We provide quantitative evidence for our previous conjecture which states an equivalence of the partition function of a 3d N=2 gauge theory on a duality wall and that of the SL(2,R) Chern-Simons theory on a mapping torus, for a class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-09 Yuji Terashima , Masahito Yamazaki

We study N=1 field theories with a U(1)_R symmetry on compact four-manifolds M. Supersymmetry requires M to be a complex manifold. The supersymmetric theory on M can be described in terms of conventional fields coupled to background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-08 Cyril Closset , Thomas T. Dumitrescu , Guido Festuccia , Zohar Komargodski

We consider N = 3 supersymmetric Chern-Simons gauge theories with product unitary and orthosymplectic groups and bifundamental and fundamental fields. We study the partition functions on an S^3 by using the Kapustin-Willett-Yaakov matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Daniel R. Gulotta , Christopher P. Herzog , Tatsuma Nishioka