TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.4.156
TI  - Dualities and loops on squashed $S^3$
PY  - 2023/10/12
UR  - https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.15.4.156
JF  - SciPost Physics
JA  - SciPost Phys.
VL  - 15
IS  - 4
SP  - 156
A1  - Thull, Charles
AB  - We consider $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric gauge theories on the squashed three-sphere with six preserved supercharges. We first discuss how Wilson and vortex loops preserve up to four of the supercharges and we find squashing independence for the expectation values of these 2/3-BPS loops. We then show how the additional supersymmetries facilitate the analytic matching of partition functions and loop operator expectation values to those in the mirror dual theory, allowing one to lift all the results that were previously established on the round sphere to the squashed sphere. Additionally, on the squashed sphere with four preserved supercharges, we numerically evaluate the partition functions of ABJM and its dual super-Yang-Mills at low ranks of the gauge group. We find matching values of their partition functions, prompting us to conjecture the general equality on the squashed sphere. From the numerics we also observe the squashing dependence of the Lee-Yang zeros and of the non-perturbative corrections to the all order large $N$ expression for the ABJM partition function.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.4.156,
	title={{Dualities and loops on squashed $S^3$}},
	author={Charles Thull},
	journal={SciPost Phys.},
	volume={15},
	pages={156},
	year={2023},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.4.156},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.4.156},
}