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Chern-Simons theory on a closed contact three-manifold is studied when the Lie group for gauge transformations is compact, connected and abelian. A rigorous definition of an abelian Chern-Simons partition function is derived using the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Brendan McLellan

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

This is the 10th article in the collection of reviews "Exact results on N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories", ed. J.Teschner. It reviews correspondences between three-dimensional gauge theories and complex Chern-Simons theory on suitable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-23 Tudor Dimofte

We study three-dimensional supersymmetric quiver gauge theories with a non-simply laced global symmetry primarily focusing on framed affine $B_{N}$ quiver theories. Using a supersymmetric partition function on a three sphere, and its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 Anindya Dey , Amihay Hanany , Peter Koroteev , Noppadol Mekareeya

We propose an equivalence of the partition functions of two different 3d gauge theories. On one side of the correspondence we consider the partition function of 3d SL(2,R) Chern-Simons theory on a 3-manifold, obtained as a punctured Riemann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-05 Yuji Terashima , Masahito Yamazaki

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 compute the partition function on the hemisphere of a class of two-dimensional (2,2) supersymmetric field theories including gauged linear sigma models. The result provides a general exact formula for the central charge of the D-brane…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-13 Kentaro Hori , Mauricio Romo

We study the duality between theories of a fundamental scalar or fermion coupled to $U(N)$ Chern-Simons gauge theory at the level of the three-sphere partition function, or equivalently entanglement entropy across a circle. The duality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-21 Simone Giombi

We consider 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ gauge theories with R-symmetry on a hemisphere times a torus. We apply localization techniques to evaluate the exact partition function through a cohomological reformulation of the supersymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-15 Pietro Longhi , Fabrizio Nieri , Antonio Pittelli

We present the gravity dual to a class of three-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories on a biaxially squashed three-sphere, with a non-trivial background gauge field. This is described by a 1/2 BPS Euclidean solution of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Dario Martelli , James Sparks

We study supersymmetric gauge theories with an R-symmetry, defined on non-compact, hyperbolic, Riemannian three-manifolds, focusing on the case of a supersymmetry-preserving quotient of Euclidean AdS$_3$. We compute the exact partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Benjamin Assel , Dario Martelli , Sameer Murthy , Daisuke Yokoyama

We consider supersymmetric gauge theories on Riemannian three-manifolds with the topology of a three-sphere. The three-manifold is always equipped with an almost contact structure and an associated Reeb vector field. We show that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Luis F. Alday , Dario Martelli , Paul Richmond , James Sparks

In the context of boundary conformal field theory, we investigate whether the boundary trace anomaly can depend on marginal directions in the presence of supersymmetry. Recently, it was found that a graphene-like non-supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Christopher P. Herzog , Kuo-Wei Huang , Itamar Shamir , Julio Virrueta

We construct the gravity duals of large N supersymmetric gauge theories defined on squashed five-spheres with SU(3) x U(1) symmetry. These five-sphere backgrounds are continuously connected to the round sphere, and we find a one-parameter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Luis F. Alday , Martin Fluder , Carolina M. Gregory , Paul Richmond , James Sparks

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

We systematically study 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ dualities for $U(N_c)$ gauge theories with different CS levels for the abelian and the non-abelian factors. We derive such dualities by a gauging/ungauging procedure on other known dualities and by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-14 Antonio Amariti , Simone Rota

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

3-dimensional BF theory with gauge group $G$ (= Chern-Simons theory with non-compact gauge group $TG$) is a deceptively simple yet subtle topological gauge theory. Formally, its partition function is a sum/integral over the moduli space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Matthias Blau , Mbambu Kakona , George Thompson

We show that the functional bosonization procedure can be generalized in such a way that, to any field theory with a conserved Abelian charge in (2+1) dimensions, there corresponds a dual Abelian gauge field theory. The properties of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. D. Fosco , V. E. R. Lemes , L. E. Oxman , S. P. Sorella , O. S. Ventura

We apply supersymmetric localization to N=(2,2) gauged linear sigma models on a hemisphere, with boundary conditions, i.e., D-branes, preserving B-type supersymmetries. We explain how to compute the hemisphere partition function for each…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-26 Daigo Honda , Takuya Okuda