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Dimofte, Tudor

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(0,2) dualities and the 4-simplex

We propose that a simple, Lagrangian 2d \( \mathcal{N} \) = (0, 2) duality interface between the 3d \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 XYZ model and 3d \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 SQED can be associated to the simplest triangulated 4-manifold: the 4-simplex. We then begin to flesh out a dictionary between more general triangulated 4-manifolds with boundary and 2d \( \mathcal{N} \) = (0, 2) interfaces. In particular, we identify IR dualities of interfaces associated to local changes of 4d triangulation, governed by the (3), (2, 4), and (2, 4) Pachner moves. We check these dualities using supersymmetric half-indices. We also describe how to produce stand-alone 2d theories (as opposed to interfaces) capturing the geometry of 4-simplices and Pachner moves by making additional field-theoretic choices, and find in this context that the Pachner moves recover abelian \( \mathcal{N} \) = (0, 2) trialities of Gadde-Gukov-Putrov. Our work provides new, explicit tools to explore the interplay between 2d dualities and 4-manifold geometry that has been developed in recent years.

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS↗

Dual boundary conditions in 3d SCFT’s

We propose matching pairs of half-BPS boundary conditions related by IR dualities of 3d $\mathcal{N}$=2 gauge theories. From these matching pairs we construct duality interfaces. We test our proposals by anomaly matching and the computation of supersymmetric indices. With this being said, examples include basic abelian dualities, level-rank dualities, and Aharony dualities.

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS↗

Quantum modularity and complex Chern-Simons theory

The Quantum Modularity Conjecture of Zagier predicts the existence of a formal power series with arithmetically interesting coefficients that appears in the asymptotics of the Kashaev invariant at each root of unity. Our goal is to construct a power series from a Neumann-Zagier datum (i.e., an ideal triangulation of the knot complement and a geometric solution to the gluing equations) and a complex root of unity $\zeta$. We prove that the coefficients of our series lie in the trace field of the knot, adjoined a complex root of unity. We conjecture that our series are those that appear in the Quantum Modularity Conjecture and confirm that they match the numerical asymptotics of the Kashaev invariant (at various roots of unity) computed by Zagier and the first author. Our construction is motivated by the analysis of singular limits in Chern-Simons theory with gauge group $SL(2,C)$ at fixed level $k$, where $\zeta^k=1$.

97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING↗