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Topologically twisted indices in five dimensions and holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-11-28 v3

Abstract

We provide a formula for the partition function of five-dimensional N=1\mathcal{N}=1 gauge theories on M4×S1\mathcal{M}_4 \times S^1, topologically twisted along M4\mathcal{M}_4 in the presence of general background magnetic fluxes, where M4\mathcal{M}_4 is a toric K\"ahler manifold. The result can be expressed as a contour integral of the product of copies of the K-theoretic Nekrasov's partition function, summed over gauge magnetic fluxes. The formula generalizes to five dimensions the topologically twisted index of three- and four-dimensional field theories. We analyze the large NN limit of the partition function and some related quantities for two theories: N=2\mathcal{N}=2 SYM and the USp(2N)\mathrm{USp}(2N) theory with NfN_f flavors and an antisymmetric matter field. For P1×P1×S1\mathbb{P}^1 \times \mathbb{P}^1 \times S^1, which can be easily generalized to Σg2×Σg1×S1\Sigma_{\mathfrak{g}_2} \times \Sigma_{\mathfrak{g}_1} \times S^1, we conjecture the form of the relevant saddle point at large NN. The resulting partition function for N=2\mathcal{N}=2 SYM scales as N3N^3 and is in perfect agreement with the holographic results for domain walls in AdS7×S4_7 \times S^4. The large NN partition function for the USp(2N)\mathrm{USp}(2N) theory scales as N5/2N^{5/2} and gives a prediction for the entropy of a class of magnetically charged black holes in massive type IIA supergravity.

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@article{arxiv.1808.06626,
  title  = {Topologically twisted indices in five dimensions and holography},
  author = {Seyed Morteza Hosseini and Itamar Yaakov and Alberto Zaffaroni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.06626},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

80 pages. v3: minor corrections, published version

R2 v1 2026-06-23T03:38:46.759Z