1. Emergent 3-Manifolds from Four Dimensional Superconformal Indices.
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Yuji Terashima and Masahito Yamazaki
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MANIFOLDS (Mathematics) , *CONFORMAL geometry , *HYPERBOLIC functions , *NUCLEAR spin , *LATTICE theory , *SUPERSYMMETRY , *GAUGE field theory , *PARTITIONS (Mathematics) - Abstract
We show that the smooth geometry of a hyperbolic 3-manifold emerges from a classical spin system defined on a 2D discrete lattice, and moreover, show that the process of this "dimensional oxidation" is equivalent with the dimensional reduction of a supersymmetric gauge theory from 4D to 3D. More concretely, we propose an equality between (1) the 4D superconformal index of a 4D N = 1 super-conformal quiver gauge theory described by a bipartite graph on T2 and (2) the partition function of a classical integrable spin chain on T2. The 2D spin system is lifted to a hyperbolic 3-manifold after the dimensional reduction and using the Higgs mechanism in the 4D gauge theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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