Topological correlators and surface defects from equivariant cohomology

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2020)185zbMATH Open1454.81233arXiv2006.06692OpenAlexW3091523343MaRDI QIDQ1995190FDOQ1995190

Rodolfo Panerai, Antonio Pittelli, Konstantina Polydorou

Publication date: 18 February 2021

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

Abstract: We find a one-dimensional protected subsector of $mathcalN=4$ matter theories on a general class of three-dimensional manifolds. By means of equivariant localization, we identify a dual quantum mechanics computing BPS correlators of the original model in three dimensions. Specifically, applying the Atiyah-Bott-Berline-Vergne formula to the original action demonstrates that this localizes on a one-dimensional action with support on the fixed-point submanifold of suitable isometries. We first show that our approach reproduces previous results obtained on $S^3$. Then, we apply it to the novel case of $S^{2}imes{S}^1$ and show that the theory localizes on two noninteracting quantum mechanics with disjoint support. We prove that the BPS operators of such models are naturally associated with a noncommutative star product, while their correlation functions are essentially topological. Finally, we couple the three-dimensional theory to general $mathcalN=(2,2)$ surface defects and extend the localization computation to capture the full partition function and BPS correlators of the mixed-dimensional system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06692

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zbMATH Keywords

extended supersymmetrysupersymmetry and dualitytopological field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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