N=1 Chern-Simons-matter theory and localization
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-09-21 v2
Abstract
We consider the most general, classically-conformal, three-dimensional Chern-Simons-matter theory with global symmetry and gauge group . We show that the Lagrangian in the on-shell formulation of the theory admits one more free parameter as compared to the theory formulated in off-shell superspace. The theory on can be formally localized. We partially carry out the localization procedure for the theory on with periodic boundary conditions. In particular we show that restricting to the saddle points with vanishing gauge connection gives a trivial contribution to the partition function, i.e. the bosonic and fermionic contributions exactly cancel each other.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1603.02878,
title = {N=1 Chern-Simons-matter theory and localization},
author = {Dimitrios Tsimpis and Yaodong Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.02878},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
35 pages. v2: clarifications and reference added; published version