Elliptic genera of pure gauge theories in two dimensions with semisimple non-simply-connected gauge groups (Q2231682)

The low energy infrared limits of gauge theories have been of interest in the past few years. Pure gauge theories in two dimensions with \(\mathcal{N} = (2, 2)\) supersymmetry have long been believed to be gapless. In 2016, Aharony, Razamat, Seiberg, and Willett made the refined conjecture that the infrared limit of a (2,2) supersymmetric pure \(G\) gauge theory, \(G\) semi-simple and simply-connected, should be a theory of free twisted chiral multiplets, as many as the rank of \(G\), with R-charges proportional to Casimir degrees. Following Gu-Sharpe nonabelian mirrors, the conjecture has been checked in 2020 by Gu et al. Furthermore, they also observe that in pure \(G/\Gamma\) gauge theories for a subgroup of the center of \(G\), that one gets an identical free theory for one value of the discrete theta angle, and supersymmetry breaking in the infrared limits for other values of the discrete theta angle. One can learn the infrared dynamics from RG-protected physical quantities. Furthermore, one can compute the RG-protected quantities from gauge theories. However, pure gauge theories flow to non-compact infrared-free theories, so most RG-protected quantities are divergence. The elliptic genera are the exception, and they encode the dynamical information on the infrared limits of gauge theories. The authors of this note developed a systematical method to compute elliptic genera of pure two-dimensional (2,2) supersymmetric \(G/\Gamma\) gauge theories with various discrete theta angles. Their results agree with previous computations of elliptic genera of some pure gauge theories and the conjecture in pure gauge theories.