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$q$-Virasoro modular double and 3d partition functions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-05-02 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We study partition functions of 3d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 U(N) gauge theories on compact manifolds which are S1S^1 fibrations over S2S^2. We show that the partition functions are free field correlators of vertex operators and screening charges of the qq-Virasoro modular double, which we define. The inclusion of supersymmetric Wilson loops in arbitrary representations allows us to show that the generating functions of Wilson loop vacuum expectation values satisfy two SL(2,Z\mathbb{Z})-related commuting sets of qq-Virasoro constraints. We generalize our construction to 3d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 unitary quiver gauge theories and as an example we give the free boson realization of the ABJ(M) model.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1605.07029,
  title  = {$q$-Virasoro modular double and 3d partition functions},
  author = {Anton Nedelin and Fabrizio Nieri and Maxim Zabzine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.07029},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

v1: 59 pages, 3 figures. v2: corrected few typos, references added. v3: corrected few typos, published version

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