Four-dimensional lens space index from two-dimensional chiral algebra

Year: 2018

DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2018)073

We study the supersymmetric partition function on S^1 × L(r, 1), or the lens space index of four-dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories and their connection to two-dimensional chiral algebras. We primarily focus on free theories as well as ArgyresDouglas theories of type (A_1, A_k) and (A_1, D_k). We observe that in specific limits, the lens space index is reproduced in terms of the (refined) character of an appropriately twisted module of the associated two-dimensional chiral algebra or a generalized vertex operator algebra. The particular twisted module is determined by the choice of discrete holonomies for the flavor symmetry in four-dimensions.