The resurgence of errors in the localization of $\mathcal{N} = 2$ superconformal Yang-Mills

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Hauptverfasser: Aniceto, Inês, Ratcliffe, James, Yaakov, Itamar
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author Aniceto, Inês
Ratcliffe, James
Yaakov, Itamar
author_facet Aniceto, Inês
Ratcliffe, James
Yaakov, Itamar
contents We give a physical interpretation for the analytic continuation of the partition function of superconformal SU$(2)$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theory on the four-sphere to all values of the Yang-Mills coupling. We show that a well-motivated 2d construction associates two-dimensional unstable instantons to the 4d complex saddles which appear as singularities in the integrand of the supersymmetric localization expression. The construction is based on the chiral algebra subsector, and aligns with the alternative Higgs branch localization.
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spellingShingle The resurgence of errors in the localization of $\mathcal{N} = 2$ superconformal Yang-Mills
Aniceto, Inês
Ratcliffe, James
Yaakov, Itamar
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
We give a physical interpretation for the analytic continuation of the partition function of superconformal SU$(2)$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theory on the four-sphere to all values of the Yang-Mills coupling. We show that a well-motivated 2d construction associates two-dimensional unstable instantons to the 4d complex saddles which appear as singularities in the integrand of the supersymmetric localization expression. The construction is based on the chiral algebra subsector, and aligns with the alternative Higgs branch localization.
title The resurgence of errors in the localization of $\mathcal{N} = 2$ superconformal Yang-Mills
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05733