The N=2 Schur index from free fermions

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2016)167MaRDI QIDQ1638197zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jun Bourdier, Nadav Drukker, Jan Felix

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/1510.07041

zbMATH Keywords

matrix modelssupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We study the Schur index of 4-dimensional $mathcalN=2$ circular quiver theories. We show that the index can be expressed as a weighted sum over partition functions describing systems of free Fermions living on a circle. For circular $SU(N)$ quivers of arbitrary length we evaluate the large $N$ limit of the index, up to exponentially suppressed corrections. For the single node theory ($mathcalN=4$ SYM) and the two node quiver we are able to go beyond the large $N$ limit, and obtain the complete, all orders large $N$ expansion of the index, as well as explicit finite $N$ results in terms of elliptic functions.

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