New vortex-string worldsheet theories from supersymmetric localization

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2019)090MaRDI QIDQ2421099zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Efrat Gerchkovitz, Avner Karasik

Publication date 8 June 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03561

zbMATH Keywords

extended supersymmetrynonperturbative effectssolitons monopoles and instantonssupersymmetry and duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We use supersymmetric localization techniques to study the low-energy dynamics of BPS vortex-strings in four-dimensional N=2 theories. We focus on theories with SU(Nc)xU(1) gauge group and Nf hypermultiplets, all in the fundamental representation of SU(Nc) but with general U(1) charges. Recently, we proposed a condition that determines whether the low-energy string dynamics is captured by a two-dimensional worldsheet theory that decouples from the bulk. For strings for which this decoupling applies, we propose a prescription for extracting the two-sphere partition function of the string worldsheet theory from the four-ellipsoid partition function of the parent theory. We obtain a general formula for the worldsheet two-sphere partition function in terms of the parameters of the four-dimensional theory and identify N=(2,2) GLSMs that possess these partition functions in a large class of examples. In these examples, the weak coupling regime of the four-dimensional theory is mapped to the weak coupling regime of the worldsheet theory. In addition, we study the classical string zero-modes in flat space and obtain predictions for the worldsheet spectra, which agree with the low-energy spectra of the GLSMs obtained in the localization analysis. For Nf=2Nc=4, we discuss the map between string worldsheet theories under four-dimensional S-duality and use our prescription to study examples in which the weak coupling regime of the four-dimensional theory is mapped to the strong coupling regime of the worldsheet theory.

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