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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 N=1\mathcal{N}=1 Chern-Simons-matter theory with global symmetry Sp(2)Sp(2) and gauge group U(N)×U(N)U(N)\times U(N). 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 N=1\mathcal{N}=1 superspace. The theory on T3T^3 can be formally localized. We partially carry out the localization procedure for the theory on T3T^3 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.

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@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

R2 v1 2026-06-22T13:07:12.743Z