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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2010)032
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Supersymmetric gauge theory; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Topological Field Theories
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- DOE [DEFG-0292-ER40697]
- NSF [PHY-0653351-001]
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We study the superconformal index for the class of N = 2 4d superconformal field theories recently introduced by Gaiotto [1]. These theories are defined by compactifying the (2, 0) 6d theory on a Riemann surface with punctures. We interpret the index of the 4d theory associated to an n-punctured Riemann surface as the n-point correlation function of a 2d topological QFT living on the surface. Invariance of the index under generalized S-duality transformations (the mapping class group of the Riemann surface) translates into associativity of the operator algebra of the 2d TQFT. In the Lambda(1) case, for which the 4d SCFTs have a Lagrangian realization, the structure constants and metric of the 2d TQFT can be calculated explicitly in terms of elliptic gamma functions. Associativity then holds thanks to a remarkable symmetry of an elliptic hypergeometric beta integral, proved very recently by van de Bult [2].
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