Symplectic gauge group on the Lens Space

TL;DR

This paper computes the Lens space index for 4d supersymmetric gauge theories with symplectic groups, distinguishing gauge groups and verifying dualities, including S-duality and triality, through explicit calculations.

Contribution

It provides explicit calculations of the Lens space index for symplectic gauge theories and demonstrates its effectiveness in distinguishing dual theories and gauge group structures.

Findings

Lens space index distinguishes different gauge groups.

Index matches across S-dual theories, confirming dualities.

Explicit triality check for $SU(2)^7$ gauge theory.

Abstract

We compute the Lens space index for 4d supersymmetric gauge theories involving symplectic gauge groups. This index can distinguish between different gauge groups from a given algebra and it matches across theories related by supersymmetric dualities. We provide explicit calculations for $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM and for classes of $\mathcal{N}=2$ and $\mathcal{N}=1$ Lagrangian quivers related by S-duality. In these cases the index matches across the S-dual phases, while models in different S-duality orbits have a different Lens index. We provide analogous computations for a 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ toric quiver gauge theory corresponding to a $\mathbb{Z}_7$ orbifold of $\mathbb{C}^3$. This $SU(n)^7$ gauge theory becomes interesting in the case of $n=2$ because it is conformally dual to other two models, with symplectic and unitary gauge groups, bifundamentals and antisymmetric tensors. We explicitly check this triality at the level of the Lens space index.