Twisted S-Duality
Mathematical Physics
2025-01-14 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Algebraic Geometry
math.MP
Quantum Algebra
Representation Theory
Abstract
We study an SL(2, Z) symmetry of a variant of BCOV theory in three complex dimensions. Using conjectural descriptions of twists of superstrings in terms of topological strings, we argue that this action can be thought of as a version of S-duality that preserves an SU(3)-invariant twist of type IIB supergravity. We analyze how SL(2,Z) acts on various deformations of the holomorphic-topological twist of 4-dimensional N = 4 supersymmetric gauge theory, which come from residual supertranslations and superconformal symmetries, and are of relevance to geometric Langlands theory and gauge-theoretic constructions of the Yangian.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1910.13653,
title = {Twisted S-Duality},
author = {Surya Raghavendran and Philsang Yoo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.13653},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
56 pages, 1 figure; major rewriting