The maximal extension of supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory coupled to fundamental matter has $mathcal{N} = 3$ supersymmetry. In this short note, we provide the explicit form of the action for the mass-deformed $mathcal{N} = 3$ supersymmetric $U(N)$ Chern-Simons-Matter theory. The theory admits a unique triplet mass deformation term consistent with supersymmetry. We explicitly construct the mass-deformed $mathcal{N} = 3$ theory in $mathcal{N} = 1$ superspace using a fundamental and an anti-fundamental superfield.
We study $mathcal{N} = 3$ supersymmetric Chern-Simons-matter theory coupled to matter in the fundamental representation of $SU(N)$. In the t Hooft large $N$ limit, we compute the exact $2 to 2$ scattering amplitudes of the fundamental scalar superfields to all orders in the t Hooft coupling $lambda$. Our computations are presented in $mathcal{N} = 1$ superspace and make significant use of the residual $SO(2)_R$ symmetry in order to solve for the exact four-point correlator of the scalar superfields. By taking the on-shell limit, we are able to extract the exact $2 to 2$ scattering amplitudes of bosons/fermions in the symmetric, anti-symmetric and adjoint channels of scattering. We find that the scattering amplitude of the $mathcal{N} = 3$ theory in the planar limit is tree-level exact to all orders in the t Hooft coupling $lambda$. The result is consistent with the conjectured bosonization duality and is expected to have enhanced symmetry structures such as dual superconformal symmetry and Yangian symmetry.
We study Chern-Simons theory on 3-manifolds M that are circle-bundles over 2-dimensional orbifolds S by the method of Abelianisation. This method, which completely sidesteps the issue of having to integrate over the moduli space of non-Abelian flat connections, reduces the complete partition function of the non-Abelian theory on M to a 2-dimensional Abelian theory on the orbifold S which is easily evaluated.
We compute the two, three point function of the opearators in the spin zero multiplet of ${cal N}=2$ Supersymmetric vector matter Chern-Simons theory at large $N$ and at all orders of t Hooft coupling by solving the Schwinger-Dyson equation. Schwinger-Dyson method to compute four point function becomes extremely complicated and hence we use bootstrap method to solve for four point function of scaler operator $J_0^{f}=barpsi psi$ and $J_0^{b}=barphi phi$. Interestingly, due to the fact that $langle J_0^{f}J_0^{f}J_0^{b} rangle$ is a contact term, the four point function of $ J_0^{f}$ operator looks like that of free theory up to overall coupling constant dependent factors and up to some bulk AdS contact terms. On the other hand the $J_0^{b}$ four-point function receives an additional contribution compared to the free theory expression due to the $J_0^{f}$ exchange. Interestingly, double discontinuity of this single trace operator $J_0^{f}$ vanishes and hence it only contributes to AdS-contact term.
We consider the $U(1)$ Chern-Simons gauge theory defined in a general closed oriented 3-manifold $M$; the functional integration is used to compute the normalized partition function and the expectation values of the link holonomies. The nonperturbative path-integral is defined in the space of the gauge orbits of the connections which belong to the various inequivalent $U(1)$ principal bundles over $M$; the different sectors of the configuration space are labelled by the elements of the first homology group of $M$ and are characterized by appropriate background connections. The gauge orbits of flat connections, whose classification is also based on the homology group, control the extent of the nonperturbative contributions to the mean values. The functional integration is achieved in any 3-manifold $M$, and the corresponding path-integral invariants turn out to be strictly related with the abelian Reshetikhin-Turaev surgery invariants.
We advocate that a generalized Kronheimer construction of the Kahler quotient crepant resolution $mathcal{M}_zeta longrightarrow mathbb{C}^3/Gamma$ of an orbifold singularity where $Gammasubset mathrm{SU(3)}$ is a finite subgroup naturally defines the field content and interaction structure of a superconformal Chern-Simons Gauge Theory. This is supposedly the dual of an M2-brane solution of $D=11$ supergravity with $mathbb{C}timesmathcal{M}_zeta$ as transverse space. We illustrate and discuss many aspects of this of constructions emphasizing that the equation $pmb{p}wedgepmb{p}=0$ which provides the Kahler analogue of the holomorphic sector in the hyperKahler moment map equations canonically defines the structure of a universal superpotential in the CS theory. The kernel of the above equation can be described as the orbit with respect to a quiver Lie group $mathcal{G}_Gamma$ of a locus $L_Gamma subset mathrm{Hom}_Gamma(mathcal{Q}otimes R,R)$ that has also a universal definition. We discuss the relation between the coset manifold $mathcal{G}_Gamma/mathcal{F}_Gamma$, the gauge group $mathcal{F}_Gamma$ being the maximal compact subgroup of the quiver group, the moment map equations and the first Chern classes of the tautological vector bundles that are in a one-to-one correspondence with the nontrivial irreps of $Gamma$. These first Chern classes provide a basis for the cohomology group $H^2(mathcal{M}_zeta)$. We discuss the relation with conjugacy classes of $Gamma$ and provide the explicit construction of several examples emphasizing the role of a generalized McKay correspondence. The case of the ALE manifold resolution of $mathbb{C}^2/Gamma$ singularities is utilized as a comparison term and new formulae related with the complex presentation of Gibbons-Hawking metrics are exhibited.