Coulomb Branch Operators and Mirror Symmetry in Three Dimensions

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Hauptverfasser: Dedushenko, Mykola, Fan, Yale, Pufu, Silviu S., Yacoby, Ran
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author Dedushenko, Mykola
Fan, Yale
Pufu, Silviu S.
Yacoby, Ran
author_facet Dedushenko, Mykola
Fan, Yale
Pufu, Silviu S.
Yacoby, Ran
contents We develop new techniques for computing exact correlation functions of a class of local operators, including certain monopole operators, in three-dimensional $\mathcal{N} = 4$ abelian gauge theories that have superconformal infrared limits. These operators are position-dependent linear combinations of Coulomb branch operators. They form a one-dimensional topological sector that encodes a deformation quantization of the Coulomb branch chiral ring, and their correlation functions completely fix the ($n\leq 3$)-point functions of all half-BPS Coulomb branch operators. Using these results, we provide new derivations of the conformal dimension of half-BPS monopole operators as well as new and detailed tests of mirror symmetry. Our main approach involves supersymmetric localization on a hemisphere $HS^3$ with half-BPS boundary conditions, where operator insertions within the hemisphere are represented by certain shift operators acting on the $HS^3$ wavefunction. By gluing a pair of such wavefunctions, we obtain correlators on $S^3$ with an arbitrary number of operator insertions. Finally, we show that our results can be recovered by dimensionally reducing the Schur index of 4D $\mathcal{N} = 2$ theories decorated by BPS 't Hooft-Wilson loops.
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Dedushenko, Mykola
Fan, Yale
Pufu, Silviu S.
Yacoby, Ran
High Energy Physics - Theory
We develop new techniques for computing exact correlation functions of a class of local operators, including certain monopole operators, in three-dimensional $\mathcal{N} = 4$ abelian gauge theories that have superconformal infrared limits. These operators are position-dependent linear combinations of Coulomb branch operators. They form a one-dimensional topological sector that encodes a deformation quantization of the Coulomb branch chiral ring, and their correlation functions completely fix the ($n\leq 3$)-point functions of all half-BPS Coulomb branch operators. Using these results, we provide new derivations of the conformal dimension of half-BPS monopole operators as well as new and detailed tests of mirror symmetry. Our main approach involves supersymmetric localization on a hemisphere $HS^3$ with half-BPS boundary conditions, where operator insertions within the hemisphere are represented by certain shift operators acting on the $HS^3$ wavefunction. By gluing a pair of such wavefunctions, we obtain correlators on $S^3$ with an arbitrary number of operator insertions. Finally, we show that our results can be recovered by dimensionally reducing the Schur index of 4D $\mathcal{N} = 2$ theories decorated by BPS 't Hooft-Wilson loops.
title Coulomb Branch Operators and Mirror Symmetry in Three Dimensions
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09384