Contour Integral for the Partition Function of $\mathcal{N}=2$ Topologically Twisted on ${\mathbb{CP}}^2$ and Physical Fluxes

Abstract

We compute the contour integral for the partition function of an $\mathcal{N}=2$ $SU(2)$ topologically twisted theory on ${\mathbb{CP}}^2$, dimensionally reducing from an $\mathcal{N}=1$ theory on $S^5$. Earlier works presented the partition function as a sum over three equivariant fluxes, one for each toric divisor of ${\mathbb{CP}}^2$. Our result depends only on a single physical flux, assigned to the non-trivial two-cycle of the manifold. The reduced summation over fluxes is compensated by a contour of integration, arising from a different solution of the BPS equations, which captures more poles in each topological sector. As our observable involves a position-dependent Yang-Mills coupling, we compute new equivariant invariants of ${\mathbb{CP}}^2$, which reduce to Donaldson invariants in the non-equivariant limit. Stability conditions of gauge bundles over ${\mathbb{CP}}^2$ appear intrinsically via the dimensional reduction.

29 pages, 4 figures. Version accepted by JHEP