期刊
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 12, 页码 1-120出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2014)177
关键词
Supersymmetric gauge theory; Supersymmetry and Duality; Topological Field Theories
资金
- DOE [DE-FG02-92ER-40697, DE-FG02-90ER-40542]
- William D. Loughlin Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study
- Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship: FP7-PEOPLE-IEF
- NSF [1066293]
- DOE [DE-FG02-92ER-40697, DE-FG02-90ER-40542]
- William D. Loughlin Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study
- Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship: FP7-PEOPLE-IEF
- NSF [1066293]
We decompose sphere partition functions and indices of three-dimensional = 2 gauge theories into a sum of products involving a universal set of holomorphic blocks. The blocks count BPS states and are in one-to-one correspondence with the theory's massive vacua. We also propose a new, effective technique for calculating the holomorphic blocks, inspired by a reduction to supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The blocks turn out to possess a wealth of surprising properties, such as a Stokes phenomenon that integrates nicely with actions of three-dimensional mirror symmetry. The blocks also have interesting dual interpretations. For theories arising from the compactification of the six-dimensional (2, 0) theory on a three-manifold M, the blocks belong to a basis of wave-functions in analytically continued Chern-Simons theory on M. For theories engineered on branes in Calabi-Yau geometries, the blocks offer a non-perturbative perspective on open topological string partition functions.
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