English

Superconformal Index with Duality Domain Wall

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-11-06 v3

Abstract

We study a superconformal index for N=4{\cal N}=4 super Yang-Mills on S1×S3S^1 \times S^3 with a half BPS duality domain wall inserted at the great two-sphere in S3S^3. The index is obtained by coupling the 3d generalized superconformal index on the duality domain wall with 4d half-indices. We further consider insertions of line operators to the configuration and propose integral equations which express that the 3d index on duality domain wall is a duality kernel relating half indices of two line operators related by the duality map. We explicitly check the proposed integral equations for various duality domain walls and line operators in the N=4{\cal N}=4 SU(2) theory. We also briefly comment on a generalization to N=2\mathcal{N}=2 A1A_1 Gaiotto theories with a simple example, N=2{\cal N}=2 SU(2) SYM with four flavors.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1205.0069,
  title  = {Superconformal Index with Duality Domain Wall},
  author = {Dongmin Gang and Eunkyung Koh and Kimyeong Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.0069},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

v1: 25 pages, 4 figures. v2: comments and a reference added, minor corrections. v3: 30 pages, new results and discussions added to sec 4.5 and sec 5.1, eq 49 and eq 51 corrected, text improved; to appear in JHEP

R2 v1 2026-06-21T20:56:56.449Z