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Twisted S-duality

Surya Raghavendran, Philsang Yoo

SciPost Phys. 19, 049 (2025) · published 20 August 2025

Abstract

We study an $\mathrm{SL}(2, \mathbb{Z})$ symmetry of a variant of BCOV theory in three complex dimensions. Using conjectural descriptions of twists of superstrings in terms of topological strings, we argue that this action can be thought of as a version of S-duality that preserves an $\mathrm{SU}(3)$-invariant twist of type IIB supergravity. We analyze how $\mathrm{SL}(2, \mathbb{Z})$ acts on various deformations of the holomorphic-topological twist of 4-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric gauge theory, which come from residual supertranslations and superconformal symmetries, and are of relevance to geometric Langlands theory and gauge-theoretic constructions of the Yangian.


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