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We investigate the S-matrix of N=2 supersymmetric sine-Gordon theory based on the N=2 supersymmetry and the quantum group structure. The topological charges play an important role to derive physical contents.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Ken-ichiro Kobayashi , Tsuneo Uematsu

We study the dual descriptions recently discovered for the Seiberg-Witten theory in the presence of surface operators. The Nekrasov partition function for a four-dimensional N=2 gauge theory with a surface operator is believed equal to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Kazunobu Maruyoshi , Masato Taki

We study supersymmetric gauge theories in five dimensions, using their relation to the K-theory of the moduli spaces of torsion free sheaves. In the spirit of the BPS/CFT correspondence the partition function and the expectation values of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-13 Erik Carlsson , Nikita Nekrasov , Andrei Okounkov

We compute the equivariant Bauer-Furuta degree, when a finite group acts freely on a spin 4-manifold. In the case when the group is cyclic of order power of two, Bryan gave a formula and its applications. We have treated the case when the…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Tsuyoshi Kato , Doman Takata

We survey some of the AGT relations between N=2 gauge theories in four dimensions and geometric representations of symmetry algebras of two-dimensional conformal field theory on the equivariant cohomology of their instanton moduli spaces.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Richard J. Szabo

We construct a three dimensional deconfinement method which enables us to find new three-dimensional dualities and we apply various techniques developed in four dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories, such as the product gauge groups and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Keita Nii

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

We study (0,2) supersymmetric two-dimensional theories obtained by compactifying four-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric theories on a two-torus, with a magnetic field for a global U(1) symmetry, and present evidence that Seiberg duality in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 David Kutasov , Jennifer Lin

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

Four dimensional N=2 generalized superconformal field theory can be defined by compactifying six dimensional (0,2) theory on a Riemann surface with regular punctures. In previous studies, gauge coupling constant space is identified with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-19 Dimitri Nanopoulos , Dan Xie

We study the moduli space of vacua of four dimensional N=1 and N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories with the gauge groups $Sp(2 N_c)$, $SO(2 N_c)$ and $SO(2 N_c +1)$ using the M theory fivebrane. Higgs branches of the N=2 supersymmetric gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Seiji Terashima

We use localization techniques to study several duality proposals for supersymmetric gauge theories in three dimensions reminiscent of Seiberg duality. We compare the partition functions of dual theories deformed by real mass terms and FI…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-13 Anton Kapustin , Brian Willett , Itamar Yaakov

We investigate S^3/Z_n partition function of N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories. A gauge theory on the orbifold has degenerate vacua specified by the holonomy. The partition function is obtained by summing up the contributions of saddle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Yosuke Imamura , Daisuke Yokoyama

We compute the partition function of $\mathcal N=2$ supersymmetric mixed dimensional QED on a squashed hemisphere using localization. Mixed dimensional QED is an abelian gauge theory coupled to charged matter fields at the boundary. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 Rajesh Kumar Gupta , Augniva Ray , Karunava Sil

Using localization techniques, we compute the path integral of $N=2$ SUSY gauge theory coupled to matter on the hemisphere $HS^4$, with either Dirichlet or Neumann supersymmetric boundary conditions. The resulting quantities are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-15 Edi Gava , K. S. Narain , Nouman Muteeb , V. I. Giraldo-Rivera

We discuss gauge theory with a topological N=2 symmetry. This theory captures the de Rham complex and Riemannian geometry of some underlying moduli space $\cal M$ and the partition function equals the Euler number of $\cal M$. We explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Matthias Blau , George Thompson

We present a uniform treatment of rigid supersymmetric field theories in a curved spacetime $\mathcal{M}$, focusing on four-dimensional theories with four supercharges. Our discussion is significantly simpler than earlier treatments,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-11 Guido Festuccia , Nathan Seiberg

We use supersymmetric localization to study probes of four dimensional Lagrangian N=2 superconformal field theories. We first derive a unique equation for the eigenvalue density of these theories. We observe that these theories have a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Bartomeu Fiol , Blai Garolera , Genis Torrents

We study two-dimensional Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity on the disk topology by using a BF gauge theory in the presence of a boundary term. The system can be equivalently written in a supersymmetric way by introducing auxiliary gauginos and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-06 Luca Griguolo , Luigi Guerrini , Rodolfo Panerai , Jacopo Papalini , Domenico Seminara

We study the Seiberg-Witten curves for N=2 SUSY gauge theories arising from type IIA string configurations with two orientifold sixplanes. Such theories lift to elliptic models in M-theory. We express the M-theory background for these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Amy E. Ksir , Stephen G. Naculich
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