Cohomological localization of N = 2 gauge theories with matter

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DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2020)133zbMATH Open1454.81223arXiv2005.12944MaRDI QIDQ1995153FDOQ1995153

Konstantina Polydorou, Anastasios Gorantis, Lorenzo Ruggeri, Guido Festuccia, Antonio Pittelli

Publication date: 18 February 2021

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

Abstract: We construct a large class of gauge theories with extended supersymmetry on four-dimensional manifolds with a Killing vector field and isolated fixed points. We extend previous results limited to super Yang-Mills theory to general mathcalN=2 gauge theories including hypermultiplets. We present a general framework encompassing equivariant Donaldson-Witten theory and Pestun's theory on S4 as two particular cases. This is achieved by expressing fields in cohomological variables, whose features are dictated by supersymmetry and require a generalized notion of self-duality for two-forms and of chirality for spinors. Finally, we implement localization techniques to compute the exact partition function of the cohomological theories we built up and write the explicit result for manifolds with diverse topologies.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12944





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