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Abstract [en]
This thesis consists of an introduction and three research papers in the general area of geometry and physics. In particular we study 7D supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and related topics in toric and hypertoric geometry. Yang-Mills theory is used to describe particle interactions in physics but it also plays an important role in mathematics. For example, Yang-Mills theory can be used to formulate topological invariants in differential geometry. In Paper I we formulate 7D maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on curved manifolds that admit positive Killing spinors. For the case of Sasaki-Einstein manifolds we perform a localisation calculation and find the perturbative partition function of the theory. For toric Sasaki-Einstein manifolds we can write the answer in terms of a special function that count integer lattice points inside a cone determined by the toric action. In Papers II and III we consider 7D maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on hypertoric 3-Sasakian manifolds. We show that the perturbative partition function can again be formulated in terms of a special function counting integer lattice points in a cone, similar to the toric case. We also present a factorisation result for these functions.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Department of Mathematics, 2019. p. 43
Series
Uppsala Dissertations in Mathematics, ISSN 1401-2049 ; 116
Keywords
Yang-Mills theory, supersymmetry, toric geometry, hypertoric geometry, Sasaki-Einstein, 3-Sasaki, localisation, special functions
National Category
Mathematics
Research subject
Mathematics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-389899 (URN)978-91-506-2780-0 (ISBN)
Public defence
2019-09-20, Å4001, Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1, Uppsala, 10:00 (English)
Opponent
Supervisors
2019-08-282019-07-312019-08-28