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Title: ’t Hooft defects and wall crossing in SQM

Abstract

In this paper we study the contribution of monopole bubbling to the expectation value of supersymmetric ’t Hooft defects in Lagrangian theories of class S on R3 × S1. This can be understood as the Witten index of an SQM living on the world volume of the ’t Hooft defect that couples to the bulk 4D theory. The computation of this Witten index has many subtleties originating from a continuous spectrum of scattering states along the non-compact vacuum branches. We find that even after properly dealing with the spectral asymmetry, the standard localization result for the ’t Hooft defect does not agree with the result obtained from the AGT correspondence. In this paper we will explicitly show that one must correct the localization result by adding an extra term to the standard Jeffrey-Kirwan residue formula. This extra term accounts for the contribution of ground states localized along the non-compact branches. This extra term restores both the expected symmetry properties of the line defect expectation value and reproduces the results derived using the AGT correspondence.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy. NHETC
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1802017
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0010008
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2019; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Physics

Citation Formats

Brennan, T. Daniel, Dey, Anindya, and Moore, Gregory W. ’t Hooft defects and wall crossing in SQM. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1007/jhep10(2019)173.
Brennan, T. Daniel, Dey, Anindya, & Moore, Gregory W. ’t Hooft defects and wall crossing in SQM. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10(2019)173
Brennan, T. Daniel, Dey, Anindya, and Moore, Gregory W. Tue . "’t Hooft defects and wall crossing in SQM". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10(2019)173. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1802017.
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