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We study gravity duals to a broad class of N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories defined on a general class of three-manifold geometries. The gravity backgrounds are based on Euclidean self-dual solutions to four-dimensional gauged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-26 Daniel Farquet , Jakob Lorenzen , Dario Martelli , James Sparks

Topological insulators in three dimensions are characterized by a Z2-valued topological invariant, which consists of a strong index and three weak indices. In the presence of disorder, only the strong index survives. This paper studies the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 H. -M. Guo

We describe the topological $A$ and $B$ twists of 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ theories of hypermultiplets gauged by $\mathcal{N}=4$ vector multiplets as certain deformations of the holomorphic-topological ($HT$) twist of those theories, utilizing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-21 Niklas Garner

We study holographic solutions describing RG flows across dimensions from five-dimensional $N=2$ SCFT to SCFTs in three and two dimensions using matter-coupled $F(4)$ gauged supergravity with $ISO(3)\times U(1)$ gauge group. By performing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-18 Parinya Karndumri

We compute the index for orbifold quiver gauge theories. We compare it with the results obtained from the type IIB supergravity (superstring) on AdS_5 \times S^5/\Gamma.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yu Nakayama

We construct 4D $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories on an infinite family of 4D toric manifolds with the topology of connected sums of $S^2 \times S^2$. These theories are constructed through the dimensional reduction along a non-trivial $U(1)$-fiber…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Guido Festuccia , Jian Qiu , Jacob Winding , Maxim Zabzine

In this note, we define a holographic dual to four-dimensional superconformal field theories formulated on arbitrary Riemannian manifolds equipped with a Killing vector. Moreover, assuming smoothness of the bulk solution, we study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-04 Pietro Benetti Genolini , Paul Richmond

Formulation and supersymmetry localization of superconformal indices for $\mathcal{N}=2B$ superconformal quantum mechanics are reviewed by providing a generalization to fixed point submanifolds of resolved target space geometries, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-02 Joris Raeymaekers , Canberk Sanli , Dieter Van den Bleeken

We study compactifications of an infinite family of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ SCFTs on a Riemann surface in the presence of arbitrary background fluxes for global symmetries. The four-dimensional parent theories have holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Christopher Couzens , Huibert het Lam , Kilian Mayer

We compute the adjoint twisted Reidemeister torsion for closed oriented hyperbolic $3$-manifolds and for hyperbolic $3$-manifolds with toroidal boundary. In our formula, we consider the manifold as obtained by doing a Dehn-filling along…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-05-26 Ka Ho Wong , Tian Yang

This article investigates a new gauge theoretic approach to Einstein's equations in dimension 4. Whilst aspects of the formalism are already explained in various places in the mathematics and physics literature, our first goal is to give a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Joel Fine , Kirill Krasnov , Dmitri Panov

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 show how the index formula for manifolds with fibered boundaries can be used to compute the index of the Dirac operator on Taub-NUT space twisted by an anti-self-dual generic instanton connection.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Andres Larrain-Hubach

A multisection of a 4-manifold is a decomposition into 1-handlebodies intersecting pairwise along 3-dimensional handlebodies or along a central closed surface; this generalizes the Gay-Kirby trisections. We show how to compute the twisted…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Delphine Moussard , Trenton Schirmer

We find a large class of holographic solutions describing D4-branes wrapped on 4-manifolds $\mathcal{M}_4$ with constant curvature leading to gravity duals of supersymmetric quantum mechanics in the IR via twisted compactifications. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-20 Parinya Karndumri , Patharadanai Nuchino

We study the superconformal indices of 4d theories coming from 6d N=(2,0) theory of type \Gamma on a Riemann surface, with the action of the outer-automorphism \sigma in the trace. We find that the indices are given by the partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Noppadol Mekareeya , Jaewon Song , Yuji Tachikawa

We apply ideas from $C^*$-algebra to the study of disordered topological insulators. We extract certain almost commuting matrices from the free Fermi Hamiltonian, describing band projected coordinate matrices. By considering topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-18 M. B. Hastings , T. A. Loring

We compute the contour integral for the partition function of an $\mathcal{N}=2$ $SU(2)$ topologically twisted theory on $\mathbb{CP}^2$, dimensionally reducing from an $\mathcal{N}=1$ theory on $S^5$. Earlier works presented the partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Lorenzo Ruggeri

We study four dimensional N=2 supersymmetric gauge theory in the Omega-background with the two dimensional N=2 super-Poincare invariance. We explain how this gauge theory provides the quantization of the classical integrable system…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Nikita A. Nekrasov , Samson L. Shatashvili

In this paper we continue the programme of topologically twisting N=2 theories in D=4, focusing on the coupling of vector multiplets to N=2 supergravity. We show that in the minimal case, namely when the special geometry prepotential F(X)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-02 Damiano Anselmi , Pietro Fre'