S-duality and the prepotential in N=2^ theories. I: The ADE algebras

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DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2015)024zbMATH Open1388.81287arXiv1507.07709OpenAlexW2103996751MaRDI QIDQ2636070FDOQ2636070


Authors: Marco Billò, M. Frau, F. Fucito, Alberto Lerda, J. F. Morales Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 31 May 2018

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

Abstract: The prepotential of N=2* supersymmetric theories with unitary gauge groups in an Omega-background satisfies a modular anomaly equation that can be recursively solved order by order in an expansion for small mass. By requiring that S-duality acts on the prepotential as a Fourier transform we generalise this result to N=2* theories with gauge algebras of the D and E type and show that their prepotentials can be written in terms of quasi-modular forms of SL(2,Z). The results are checked against microscopic multi-instanton calculus based on localization for the A and D series and reproduce the known 1-instanton prepotential of the pure N=2 theories for any gauge group of ADE type. Our results can also be used to obtain the multi-instanton terms in the exceptional theories for which the microscopic instanton calculus and the ADHM construction are not available.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.07709




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