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arxiv: 1602.00273 · v2 · pith:HPOKGHGRnew · submitted 2016-01-31 · ✦ hep-th · math-ph· math.MP

Resumming instantons in N=2* theories with arbitrary gauge groups

classification ✦ hep-th math-phmath.MP
keywords modularalgebrasanomalyequationprepotentialresummingtheoriesallow
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We discuss the modular anomaly equation satisfied by the the prepotential of 4-dimensional N=2* theories and show that its validity is related to S-duality. The recursion relations that follow from the modular anomaly equation allow one to write the prepotential in terms of (quasi)-modular forms, thus resumming the instanton contributions. These results can be checked against the microscopic multi-instanton calculus in the case of classical algebras, but are valid also for the exceptional E6, E7, E8, F4 and G2 algebras, where direct computations are not available.

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