Exact partition functions for deformed N=2 theories with N_f=4 flavours

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2016)029MaRDI QIDQ1636619zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matteo Beccaria, Alberto Fachechi, Guido Macorini, Luigi Martina

Publication date 12 June 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01189

zbMATH Keywords

extended supersymmetrynonperturbative effectssupersymmetric effective theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We consider the $Omega$-deformed $mathcalN=2$ $SU(2)$ gauge theory in four dimensions with $N_f=4$ massive fundamental hypermultiplets. The low energy effective action depends on the deformation parameters $varepsilo{n}_1,varepsilo{n}_2$, the scalar field expectation value $a$, and the hypermultiplet masses $$. Motivated by recent findings in the $mathcalN=2^{\ast }$ theory, we explore the theories that are characterized by special fixed ratios $varepsilo{n}_2/varepsilo{n}_1$ and $$ and propose a simple condition on the structure of the multi-instanton contributions to the prepotential determining the effective action. This condition determines a finite set $P{i}_N$ of special points such that the prepotential has $N$ poles at fixed positions independent on the instanton number. In analogy with what happens in the $mathcalN=2^{\ast }$ gauge theory, the full prepotential of the $P{i}_N$ theories may be given in closed form as an explicit function of $a$ and the modular parameter $q$ appearing in special combinations of Eisenstein series and Jacobi theta functions with well defined modular properties. The resulting finite pole partition functions are related by AGT correspondence to special 4-point spherical conformal blocks of the Virasoro algebra. We examine in full details special cases where the closed expression of the block is known and confirms our Ansatz. We systematically study the special features of Zamolodchikov's recursion for the $P{i}_N$ conformal blocks. As a result, we provide a novel effective recursion relation that can be exactly solved and allows to prove the conjectured closed expressions analytically in the case of the $P{i}_1$ and $P{i}_2$ conformal blocks.

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