Seiberg-Witten theories on ellipsoids
Abstract
We present a set of equations for a 4D Killing spinor which guarantees the Seiberg-Witten theories on a curved background to be supersymmetric. The equations involve an SU(2) gauge field and some auxiliary fields in addition to the metric. Fourdimensional ellipsoids with U(1) × U(1) isometry are shown to admit a supersymmetry if these additional fields are chosen appropriately. We compute the partition function of general Seiberg-Witten theories on ellipsoids, and the result suggests a correspondence with 2D Liouville or Toda correlators with general coupling constant b.
- Publication:
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Journal of High Energy Physics
- Pub Date:
- September 2012
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1206.6359
- Bibcode:
- 2012JHEP...09..033H
- Keywords:
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- Supersymmetric gauge theory;
- Extended Supersymmetry;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 1+27 pages, no figures. v2: references added, minor corrections. (published in JHEP) v3: results on FI-term added