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A journey to 3d: exact relations for adjoint SQCD from dimensional reduction
In this note we elaborate on the reduction of four dimensional Seiberg
duality with adjoint matter to three dimensions. We use the exact formulation
of the superconformal index and of the partition function as instruments to
test this reduction. We translate the identity between indices of the dual 4d
theories to 3d. This produces various new identities between partition
functions of 3d dual phases.Comment: 18 pages, appendix added on the large mass scaling of the partition
function, version published in JHE
ABCD of Beta Ensembles and Topological Strings
We study beta-ensembles with Bn, Cn, and Dn eigenvalue measure and their
relation with refined topological strings. Our results generalize the familiar
connections between local topological strings and matrix models leading to An
measure, and illustrate that all those classical eigenvalue ensembles, and
their topological string counterparts, are related one to another via various
deformations and specializations, quantum shifts and discrete quotients. We
review the solution of the Gaussian models via Macdonald identities, and
interpret them as conifold theories. The interpolation between the various
models is plainly apparent in this case. For general polynomial potential, we
calculate the partition function in the multi-cut phase in a perturbative
fashion, beyond tree-level in the large-N limit. The relation to refined
topological string orientifolds on the corresponding local geometry is
discussed along the way.Comment: 33 pages, 1 figur
Multiply-refined enumeration of alternating sign matrices
Four natural boundary statistics and two natural bulk statistics are
considered for alternating sign matrices (ASMs). Specifically, these statistics
are the positions of the 1's in the first and last rows and columns of an ASM,
and the numbers of generalized inversions and -1's in an ASM. Previously-known
and related results for the exact enumeration of ASMs with prescribed values of
some of these statistics are discussed in detail. A quadratic relation which
recursively determines the generating function associated with all six
statistics is then obtained. This relation also leads to various new identities
satisfied by generating functions associated with fewer than six of the
statistics. The derivation of the relation involves combining the
Desnanot-Jacobi determinant identity with the Izergin-Korepin formula for the
partition function of the six-vertex model with domain-wall boundary
conditions.Comment: 62 pages; v3 slightly updated relative to published versio
String Field Theory Vertices, Integrability and Boundary States
We study Neumann coefficients of the various vertices in the Witten's open
string field theory (SFT). We show that they are not independent, but satisfy
an infinite set of algebraic relations. These relations are identified as
so-called Hirota identities. Therefore, Neumann coefficients are equal to the
second derivatives of tau-function of dispersionless Toda Lattice hierarchy
(this tau-function is just the partition sum of normal matrix model). As a
result, certain two-vertices of SFT are identified with the boundary states,
corresponding to boundary conditions on an arbitrary curve. Such two-vertices
can be obtained by the contraction of special surface states with Witten's
three vertex. We analyze a class of SFT surface states,which give rise to
boundary states under this procedure. We conjecture that these special states
can be considered as describing D-branes and other non-perturbative objects as
"solitons" in SFT. We consider some explicit examples, one of them is a surface
states corresponding to orientifold.Comment: 28pages plus appendices, acknowledgments adde
2D Fermions and Statistical Mechanics: Critical Dimers and Dirac Fermions in a background gauge field
In the limit of the lattice spacing going to zero, we consider the dimer
model on isoradial graphs in the presence of singular gauge
fields flat away from a set of punctures. We consider the cluster expansion of
this twisted dimer partition function show it matches an analogous cluster
expansion of the 2D Dirac partition function in the presence of this gauge
field. The latter is often referred to as a tau function. This reproduces and
generalizes various computations of Dub\'edat (J. Eur. Math. Soc. 21 (2019),
no. 1, pp. 1-54). In particular, both sides' cluster expansion are matched up
term-by-term and each term is shown to equal a sum of a particular holomorphic
integral and its conjugate. On the dimer side, we evaluate the terms in the
expansion using various exact lattice-level identities of discrete exponential
functions and the inverse Kasteleyn matrix. On the fermion side, the cluster
expansion leads us to two novel series expansions of tau functions, one
involving the Fuschian representation and one involving the monodromy
representation.Comment: 45+26 pages, 26 figure
Arithmetic properties of overpartition functions with combinatorial explorations of partition inequalities and partition configurations
A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in ful lment of the requirements for
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Johannesburg, 2017.In this thesis, various partition functions with respect to `-regular overpartitions, a
special partition inequality and partition con gurations are studied.
We explore new combinatorial properties of overpartitions which are natural generalizations
of integer partitions. Building on recent work, we state general combinatorial
identities between standard partition, overpartition and `-regular partition
functions. We provide both generating function and bijective proofs.
We then establish an in nite set of Ramanujan-type congruences for the `-regular
overpartitions. This signi cantly extends the recent work of Shen which focused
solely on 3{regular overpartitions and 4{regular overpartitions. We also prove some
of the congruences for `-regular overpartition functions combinatorially.
We then provide a combinatorial proof of the inequality p(a)p(b) > p(a+b), where
p(n) is the partition function and a; b are positive integers satisfying a+b > 9, a > 1
and b > 1. This problem was posed by Bessenrodt and Ono who used the inequality
to study a maximal multiplicative property of an extended partition function.
Finally, we consider partition con gurations introduced recently by Andrews and
Deutsch in connection with the Stanley-Elder theorems. Using a variation of Stanley's
original technique, we give a combinatorial proof of the equality of the number
of times an integer k appears in all partitions and the number of partition con-
gurations of length k. Then we establish new generalizations of the Elder and
con guration theorems. We also consider a related result asserting the equality
of the number of 2k's in partitions and the number of unrepeated multiples of k,
providing a new proof and a generalization.MT201
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