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We continue the study of partition functions of 5d supersymmetric theories on manifolds taking the form of a twisted product $\mathcal{M}_3\times \Sigma_{\mathfrak{g}}$ with $\Sigma_{\mathfrak{g}}$ denoting a Riemann surface of genus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-01 Dharmesh Jain

We apply the method of Higgs branch localization to the $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric partition function on $S^3\times S^1.$ As a result, we show that it can be written as the product of an elliptic vortex and anti-vortex partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-19 Wolfger Peelaers

The partition function of a three-dimensional $\mathcal{N} =2$ theory on the manifold $\mathcal{M}_{g,p}$, an $S^1$ bundle of degree $p$ over a closed Riemann surface $\Sigma_g$, was recently computed via supersymmetric localization. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-03 Chiara Toldo , Brian Willett

This is the second and final part of ``Topological twists of massive SQCD''. Part I is available at arXiv:2206.08943. In this second part, we evaluate the contribution of the Coulomb branch to topological path integrals for $\mathcal{N}=2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-14 Johannes Aspman , Elias Furrer , Jan Manschot

We study $N = 2$ 3-d theories with two adjoints and fundamental flavors along with D-type superpotential. For superpotential $W_{D_{n+2}} = \mathrm{Tr} \left(X^{n+1}+X Y^2\right)$ with $n$ odd, we propose the 3d dualities, which we motivate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Chiung Hwang , Hyungchul Kim , Jaemo Park

We study aspects of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on the product of a line and a Riemann surface. Performing a topological twist along the Riemann surface leads to an effective supersymmetric quantum mechanics on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-29 Mathew Bullimore , Andrea E. V. Ferrari

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 construct supersymmetric gauge theories on some curved manifolds with boundaries. Our examples include a part of three-sphere and a part of two-sphere. We concentrate on Dirichlet boundary conditions. For these theories on the manifolds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-19 Sotaro Sugishita , Seiji Terashima

We consider three-dimensional ${\mathcal N}=2$ supersymmetric field theories defined on general complex-valued backgrounds of Euclidean new minimal supergravity admitting two Killing spinors of opposite $R$-charges. We compute partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-17 Matteo Inglese , Dario Martelli , Antonio Pittelli

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 develop new techniques for computing exact correlation functions of a class of local operators, including certain monopole operators, in three-dimensional $\mathcal{N} = 4$ abelian gauge theories that have superconformal infrared limits.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-18 Mykola Dedushenko , Yale Fan , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

We discuss localization of the path integral for supersymmetric gauge theories with an R-symmetry on Hermitian four-manifolds. After presenting the localization locus equations for the general case, we focus on backgrounds with S^1 x S^3…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Benjamin Assel , Davide Cassani , Dario Martelli

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

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

We study three-dimensional ${\mathcal N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on ${\Sigma_g \times S^1}$ with a topological twist along $\Sigma_g$, a genus-$g$ Riemann surface. The twisted supersymmetric index at genus $g$ and the correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Cyril Closset , Heeyeon Kim

We study the $S^1\times\Sigma_{\mathfrak g}$ topologically twisted index and the squashed sphere partition function of various 3d $\mathcal N\geq2$ holographic superconformal field theories arising from M2-branes. Employing numerical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-06 Nikolay Bobev , Junho Hong , Valentin Reys

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

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 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

We analyse the computation of the partition function of 5d $T_N$ theories in Higgs branches using the topological vertex. The theories are realised by a web of $(p,q)$ 5-branes whose dual description may be given by an M-theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-24 Hirotaka Hayashi , Gianluca Zoccarato