CMSA Quantum Matter/Quantum Field Theory Seminar: Holomorphic anomaly in Vafa-Witten theory
When: June 24, 2020
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Pavel Putrov - ICTP
Vafa-Witten theory is a topologically twisted version of 4d N=4 super
Yang-Mills theory. In my talk I will tell how to derive a holomorphic
anomaly equation for its partition function on CP^2 by two different,
but somewhat analogous, methods. First is the derivation from the path
integral of the effective theory on the Coulomb branch. The second is
the derivation from the path-integral in the effective 2d theory
obtained by compactification of the corresponding 6d (2,0) theory on the
ternsor branch.
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