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Taming Supersymmetric Defects in 3d-3d Correspondence

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-06-21 v1 Geometric Topology Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We study knots in 3d Chern-Simons theory with complex gauge group SL(N,C)SL(N,\mathbb{C}), in the context of its relation with 3d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 theory (the so-called 3d-3d correspondence). The defect has either co-dimension 2 or co-dimension 4 inside the 6d (2,0)(2,0) theory, which is compactified on a 3-manifold M^\hat{M}. We identify such defects in various corners of the 3d-3d correspondence, namely in 3d SL(N,C)SL(N,\mathbb{C}) Chern-Simons theory, in 3d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 theory, in 5d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 super Yang-Mills theory, and in the M-theory holographic dual. We can make quantitative checks of the 3d-3d correspondence by computing partition functions at each of these theories. This Letter is a companion to a longer paper, which contains more details and more results.

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@article{arxiv.1510.03884,
  title  = {Taming Supersymmetric Defects in 3d-3d Correspondence},
  author = {Dongmin Gang and Nakwoo Kim and Mauricio Romo and Masahito Yamazaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.03884},
  year   = {2016}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures

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