The Seiberg-Witten Kähler potential as a two-sphere partition function

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2013)142zbMATH Open1342.81611arXiv1211.0019OpenAlexW3103783535MaRDI QIDQ740139FDOQ740139

Authors: Daniel S. Park, Jaewon Song 

Publication date: 12 August 2016

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

Abstract: Recently it has been shown that the two-sphere partition function of a gauged linear sigma model of a Calabi-Yau manifold yields the exact quantum Kahler potential of the Kahler moduli space of that manifold. Since four-dimensional N=2 gauge theories can be engineered by non-compact Calabi-Yau threefolds, this implies that it is possible to obtain exact gauge theory Kahler potentials from two-sphere partition functions. In this paper, we demonstrate that the Seiberg-Witten Kahler potential can indeed be obtained as a two-sphere partition function. To be precise, we extract the quantum Kahler metric of 4D N=2 SU(2) Super-Yang-Mills theory by taking the field theory limit of the Kahler parameters of the O(-2,-2) bundle over P1 x P1. We expect this method of computing the Kahler potential to generalize to other four-dimensional N=2 gauge theories that can be geometrically engineered by toric Calabi-Yau threefolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0019

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zbMATH Keywords

extended supersymmetrynonperturbative effectsstring dualitysupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) 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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