Reducing the 4d index to the S^3 partition function

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2012)003zbMATH Open1397.81240arXiv1104.2592MaRDI QIDQ1796165FDOQ1796165

Wenbin Yan, Abhijit Gadde

Publication date: 16 October 2018

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

Abstract: The superconformal index of a 4d gauge theory is computed by a matrix integral arising from localization of the supersymmetric path integral on S^3 x S^1 to the saddle point. As the radius of the circle goes to zero, it is natural to expect that the 4d path integral becomes the partition function of dimensionally reduced gauge theory on S^3. We show that this is indeed the case and recover the matrix integral of Kapustin, Willet and Yaakov from the matrix integral that computes the superconformal index. Remarkably, the superconformal index of the "parent" 4d theory can be thought of as the q-deformation of the 3d partition function.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2592

zbMATH Keywords

matrix modelssupersymmetric gauge theorysupersymmetry and duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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