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A New Supersymmetric Index

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arxiv hep-th/9204102 v1 pith:LJUSAW44 submitted 1992-04-30 hep-th

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We show that ${\rm Tr}(-1)^F F e^{-\beta H}$ is an index for $N$=2 supersymmetric theories in two dimensions, in the sense that it is independent of almost all deformations of the theory. This index is related to the geometry of the vacua (Berry's curvature) and satisfies an exact differential equation as a function of $\beta$. For integrable theories we can also compute the index thermodynamically, using the exact $S$-matrix. The equivalence of these two results implies a highly non-trivial equivalence of a set of coupled integral equations with these differential equations, among them Painleve III and the affine Toda equations.

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