Gauge Theories and Macdonald Polynomials
Oct, 2011
56 pages
Published in:
- Commun.Math.Phys. 319 (2013) 147-193
e-Print:
- 1110.3740 [hep-th]
Report number:
- YITP-SB-11-30
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Abstract: (Springer)
We study the four-dimensional superconformal index in various interesting limits, such that only states annihilated by more than one supercharge contribute. Extrapolating from the SU(2) generalized quivers, which have a Lagrangian description, we conjecture explicit formulae for all A-type quivers of class , which in general do not have one. We test our proposals against several expected dualities. The index can always be interpreted as a correlator in a two-dimensional topological theory, which we identify in each limit as a certain deformation of two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory. The structure constants of the topological algebra are diagonal in the basis of Macdonald polynomials of the holonomies.Note:
- 57 pages, 6 figures; v2: references added and minor improvements; v3: typos corrected
- SCFT
- TQFT
- S-duality
- gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
- supersymmetry: conformal
- quiver
- correlation function
- supercharge
- deformation
- holonomy
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