High-temperature asymptotics of supersymmetric partition functions

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2016)025MaRDI QIDQ1638894zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Arash Arabi Ardehali

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/1512.03376

zbMATH Keywords

matrix modelssupersymmetric gauge theorysupersymmetry and duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We study the supersymmetric partition function of 4d supersymmetric gauge theories with a U(1) R-symmetry on Euclidean $$, with $S^3$ the unit-radius squashed three-sphere, and $$ the circumference of the circle. For superconformal theories, this partition function coincides (up to a Casimir energy factor) with the 4d superconformal index. The partition function can be computed exactly using supersymmetric localization of the gauge theory path-integral. It takes the form of an elliptic hypergeometric integral, which may be viewed as a matrix-integral over the moduli space of the holonomies of the gauge fields around $$. At high temperatures ($$, corresponding to the hyperbolic limit of the elliptic hypergeometric integral) we obtain from the matrix-integral a quantum effective potential for the holonomies. The effective potential is proportional to the temperature. Therefore the high-temperature limit further localizes the matrix-integral to the locus of the minima of the potential. If the effective potential is positive semi-definite, the leading high-temperature asymptotics of the partition function is given by the formula of Di Pietro and Komargodski, and the subleading asymptotics is connected to the Coulomb branch dynamics on $R^{3}imes{S}^1$. In theories where the effective potential is not positive semi-definite, the Di Pietro-Komargodski formula needs to be modified. In particular, this modification occurs in the SU(2) theory of Intriligator-Seiberg-Shenker, and the SO(N) theory of Brodie-Cho-Intriligator, both believed to exhibit "misleading" anomaly matchings, and both believed to yield interacting superconformal field theories with $c<a$. Two new simple tests for dualities between 4d supersymmetric gauge theories emerge as byproducts of our analysis.

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