S-duality and supersymmetry on curved manifolds
Abstract
We perform a systematic study of S-duality for N = 2 supersymmetric non-linear abelian theories on a curved manifold. Localization can be used to compute certain supersymmetric observables in these theories. We point out that localization and S-duality acting as a Legendre transform are not compatible. For these theories S-duality should be interpreted as Fourier transform and we provide some evidence for this. We also suggest the notion of a coholomological prepotential for an abelian theory that gives the same partition function as a given non-abelian supersymmetric theory.
- Publication:
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Journal of High Energy Physics
- Pub Date:
- September 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1007/JHEP09(2020)128
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2007.12001
- Bibcode:
- 2020JHEP...09..128F
- Keywords:
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- Supersymmetric Gauge Theory;
- Differential and Algebraic Geometry;
- Duality in Gauge Field Theories;
- Extended Supersymmetry;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Mathematical Physics;
- Mathematics - Differential Geometry
- E-Print:
- 51 pages