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arxiv: 2510.27526 · v2 · pith:NZSWC53Xnew · submitted 2025-10-31 · ✦ hep-th

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

classification ✦ hep-th
keywords mathbbcontourfluxesfunctionmathcalpartitioncomputeequivariant
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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.

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