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Gauge theory dynamics and Kähler potential for Calabi-Yau complex moduli

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We compute the exact two-sphere partition function and matrix of two-point functions of operators in the chiral ring with their complex conjugates in two-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories. For gauge theories that flow in the infrared to a CalabiYau nonlinear sigma model, these renormalization group invariant observables determine the exact Kähler potential and associated Zamolodchikov metric in the complex structure moduli space of the Calabi-Yau manifold.

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  1. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 2Y5, Canada

    Nima Doroud

  2. Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada

    Nima Doroud & Jaume Gomis

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Doroud, N., Gomis, J. Gauge theory dynamics and Kähler potential for Calabi-Yau complex moduli. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 99 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2013)099

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