The ALE Partition Functions of M-Strings

Autor:	Del Zotto, Michele, Lockhart, Guglielmo
Rok vydání:	2023
Předmět:	High Energy Physics - Theory
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	We compute the equivariant partition function of the six-dimensional M-string SCFTs on a background with the topology of a product of a two-dimensional torus and an ALE singularity. We determine the result by exploiting BPS strings probing the singularity, whose worldvolume theories we determine via a chain of string dualities. A distinguished feature we observe is that for this class of background the BPS strings' worldsheet theories become relative field theories that are sensitive to finer discrete data generalizing to 6d the familiar choices of flat connections at infinity for instantons on ALE spaces. We test our proposal against a conjectural 6d N = (1,0) generalization of the Nekrasov master formula, as well as against known results on ALE partition functions in four dimensions. Comment: 44 pages; v3: references added
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00607 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv