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1 Introduction N = 1 supersymmetric field theories with an R-symmetry can be defined on a compact manifold M 4 while preserving at least one supercharge, if and only if M 4 is Hermitian [1,2]. It was shown recently [3] that the partition function Z M 4 of such theories is independent of the Hermitian metric on M 4 and that it depends holomorphically on the complex structure parameters of the underlying complex manifold. We initiate the study of supersymmetric partition functions on T 2 × S 2 by computing the partition function Z Φ T 2 ×S 2 of an N = 1 chiral multiplet Φ coupled to an external vector multiplet. (The inclusion of dynamical gauge fields will be discussed elsewhere.) Our result provides a new concrete example to illustrate the general properties of supersymmetric partition functions obtained in [3]. In particular, the partition function Z Φ T 2 ×S 2 is locally holomorphic in the complex structure moduli of T 2 × S 2 .
We will work with a two-dimensional moduli space of complex structures on T 2 × S 2 . Consider C × S 2 with coordinates 1 w, z, with the identifications (w, z) ∼ (w + 2π, e 2πiα z) ∼ (w + 2πτ, e 2πiβ z) . (1.1) Here τ = τ 1 + iτ 2 with τ 2 > 0 is the standard modular parameter of T 2 , while α, β are two real parameters which rotate the S 2 as it goes around the periods of the torus. The quotient space is diffeomorphic to T 2 × S 2 . The two complex parameters τ = τ 1 + iτ 2 , σ = τ α − β , (1.2) are the complex structure moduli. There exist additional families of complex structures on T 2 × S 2 [4]. The family that we consider here is complete, in the sense that for generic values of the moduli (1.2) the allowed deformations still lie in the same family. On T 2 × S 2 with the above complex structure, it is possible to preserve (at most) two supercharges of opposite R-charge for any value of (1.2). 2 An important feature of the corresponding supergravity backgrounds [1,3,6] is that the R-symmetry background gauge field has one unit of magnetic flux through the S 2 . A consequence of this R-symmetry monopole is that the supercharges commute with the isometries of the sphere. Another consequence is that we are only allowed to consider fields of integer R-charges. 3 1 The coordinate z covers the sphere except for the south pole, where we change coordinates to z ′ = 1/z. 2 For theories with a Ferrara-Zumino (FZ) supercurrent multiplet, this point was mentioned in [5]. 3 Yet another consequence is that the dimensional reduction of the T 2 × S 2 background to S 1 × S 2 does not correspond to the 3d N = 2 "superconformal index" background of [7], which can preserve four supercharges, but rather to a different S 1 × S 2 background with one unit of magnetic flux. See [3,8] for related discussions of S 1 × S 2 backgrounds.

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Consider an N = 1 chiral multiplet Φ of R-charge r and Q f -charge q f , where Q f is an Abelian flavor symmetry U(1) f . We couple Φ to a background U(1) f real vector multiplet in the most general way that preserves the two supercharges [1,3]. The U(1) f background gauge field has flux g ∈ Z through the S 2 and flat connections a x , a y along the one-cycles of the torus. Let us define the shifted R-charge r = r + q f g and the fugacities q = e 2πiτ , x = e 2πi(τ α−β) , t = e 2πi(τ ax−ay) . (1. 3) The shifted R-charge r must also be integer. For r > 1, we find Similarly, for r ≤ 1: . (1.5) We will present two independent derivations of (1.4), (1.5). The first method is to compute the partition function by canonical quantization. We define a supersymmetric index for states on S 1 × S 2 , (1. 6) Here F is the fermion number and H is the Hamiltonian with respect to the "time" direction along the remaining S 1 . The Hamiltonian in (1.6) is computed at a generic point on the moduli space of complex structures. On states that contribute to the index, it takes the form with P the momentum along the spatial S 1 and J 3 the Cartan of the SO(3) isometry of the S 2 . Such states are thus weighted by q P x J 3 t Q f in (1.6). One could also take the more traditional point of view of computing the index with the "round" metric, corresponding to the special point τ = i, σ = 0 in the complex structure moduli space, while q, x, t would be introduced as fugacities for operators commuting with the supercharges. The advantage of our approach is that the geometrical meaning of the fugacities q, x, t is clear from the onset. The index (1.6) coincides with the supersymmetric partition function on T 2 × S 2 up to local terms. To compute it, we dimensionally reduce the theory on the sphere. This leads to an infinite tower of decoupled N = (0, 2) supersymmetric theories on the torus. Only states in short N = (0, 2) multiplets contribute to (1.6), and the effective Hamiltonian (1.7) acting on those states encodes the dependence on the complex structure moduli τ, σ of JHEP03(2014)040 The index (1.6) reduces to a Witten index on T 2 , also known as an N = (0, 2) elliptic genus [9,10]. Our results for the index overlap with some recent work on elliptic genera [11,12].
Our second derivation of (1.4), (1.5) is a path integral computation. We take advantage of the two Killing spinors present on our geometric background to rewrite the N = 1 chiral multiplet in terms of more convenient variables. We then present a general method, based on supersymmetric localization (see for instance [13][14][15]), to compute the chiral multiplet one-loop determinant on any four-manifold M 4 preserving two supercharges. In particular, in the case M 4 = T 2 × S 2 we confirm the result (1.4), (1.5).
We also study the partition function of a chiral multiplet on S 3 × S 1 using that same localization method. This provides a new derivation of a well-known result. Z Φ S 3 ×S 1 is given by an elliptic gamma function [16,17], whose natural domain of definition is the complex structure moduli space of S 3 × S 1 [3]. 4 This paper is organized as follows. In section 2, we review some necessary background about supersymmetry on curved spaces, while we study the T 2 × S 2 background more thoroughly in section 3. We derive the result (1.4), (1.5) in section 4 by computing the supersymmetric index (1.6) for an N = 1 chiral multiplet, and we briefly describe some of its interesting properties. In section 5, we propose a general method to compute the chiral multiplet partition function on any background with two supercharges, and we apply this method to the cases of T 2 × S 2 and S 3 × S 1 . Some useful additional material is presented in appendices A, B and C.
2 Curved space supersymmetry and the N = 1 chiral multiplet In this section, we review curved space rigid supersymmetry for N = 1 supersymmetric theories with an R-symmetry, focussing on the case of two supercharges of opposite chiralities. We discuss in detail the N = 1 chiral multiplet coupled to an external gauge multiplet.

Background supergravity multiplet
Curved space supersymmetry on compact manifolds is best understood as a rigid limit of off-shell supergravity [6]. Four-dimensional N = 1 supersymmetric theories with an exact R-symmetry possess a supercurrent multiplet, called the R-multipet, whose bottom component is the conserved R-symmetry current [19][20][21]. The R-multiplet couples to the new minimal supergravity multiplet of [19], which contains the metric g µν , a gravitino, and two auxiliary fields A µ and V µ . The field A µ is an R-symmetry gauge field while V µ is a vector which satisfies ∇ µ V µ = 0. Rigid supersymmetry on a compact four-manifold M 4 corresponds to a choice of supersymmetric background values for g µν , A µ , V µ [6], such that the (generalized) Killing spinor equations The computation of Z Φ S 3 ×S 1 was also reconsidered recently in [18] from the canonical quantization point of view.

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admit at least one non-trivial solution, which we can take to be ζ. The Killing spinors ζ α and ζα are spinors of R-charge +1 and −1, respectively, of opposite chiralities. Any non-trivial solution is nowhere vanishing.
In [1,2], it was shown that the existence of a single Killing spinor ζ is equivalent to the existence of a complex structure on M 4 compatible with the metric. Given ζ, the metric-compatible complex structure is given explicitly by 5 Conversely, given a complex manifold with a choice of a Hermitian metric, one can solve for the auxiliary fields A µ , V µ and for ζ explicitly [1]. In this paper we will focus on backgrounds preserving at least two supercharges of opposite chiralities, δ ζ and δ ζ . Given two Killing spinors ζ and ζ, there exists a complex Killing vector [1] This vector is anti-holomorphic with respect to (2.2). Moreover, we will assume that K commutes with its complex conjugate, [K, K † ] = 0. 6 Such backgrounds are torus fibrations over a Riemann surface Σ. We can pick complex coordinates w, z adapted to the complex structure (2.2) such that K = ∂w. The Hermitian metric is locally given by Note that, in general, the real and imaginary parts of K do not have closed orbits, but they are instead part of a larger U(1) 3 isometry. M 4 is therefore a T 2 fibration (by choosing a T 2 out of the U(1) 3 isometry orbits), but not necessarily a holomorphic one. (The fibration is holomorphic only when the orbits of K are bona fide tori.) 7 The background supergravity fields A µ , V µ read The expression for A µ is only valid in complex coordinates -in particular, √ g = 1 4 Ω 4 c 2 is the determinant of the Hermitian metric (2.4). The function κ is such that K µ ∂ µ κ = 0, but otherwise arbitrary. In the holomorphic frame the Killing spinors read 5 We are following the conventions of [3], which differ from the ones of [1] by some signs. However, our R-symmetry gauge field Aµ is defined as in [1], with A Vµ the gauge field used in [3]. 6 This is what we mean by "two supercharges" throughout this paper. The case [K, K † ] = 0 was analysed in [1]. 7 See section 5.1 of [22] for a similar discussion in three dimensions.

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From the Killing spinor ζ α , we can also construct a holomorphic two-form Note that s is a nowhere-vanishing global section of K ⊗ L 2 , with K the canonical line bundle and L the R-symmetry line bundle. Therefore, the line bundle K ⊗ L 2 is trivial and we can identify L ∼ = K − 1 2 up to a trivial line bundle [1].

Background vector multiplet
In addition to the supergravity background (2.4), (2.5), it is natural to consider background gauge fields coupling to conserved currents (whenever the field theory has any global symmetry). For simplicity, consider a background vector multiplet for an Abelian symmetry U(1) f . It has bosonic components v µ and D, with v µ the U(1) f gauge field. Let us define its field strength In order to preserve the same Killing spinors (2.7) as the supergravity background (2.4), (2.5), the background fields v µ , D have to satisfy [3] using our adapted coordinates w, z and the metric (2.4). For v µ real, f zz is the only component of the field strength that can be turned on while preserving two supercharges.

Supersymmetry transformations and supersymmetric Lagrangian
Let δ ζ and δ ζ be the two supersymmetries associated to the Killing spinors ζ and ζ. They satisfy the supersymmetry algebra [1] Here K is the Killing vector (2.3). The twisted Lie derivativeL K along K acts aŝ on any field of R-charge r and Q f -charge q f , with L K the ordinary Lie derivative. 8 We consider a chiral multiplet Φ = (φ, ψ, F ) of R-charge r and Q f -charge q f , in the supersymmetric background (2.4), (2.5), (2.10). Let us define the covariant derivative acting on fields of charges r and q f . The curved space supersymmetry transformations read [6] δφ = √ 2ζψ , (2.14)

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Similarly, for an anti-chiral multiplet Φ = ( φ, ψ, F ) of R-charge −r and Q f -charge −q f , we have (2.15) One can check that these supersymmetry transformations realize the supersymmetry algebra (2.11) if and only if ζ, ζ are solutions of (2.1). One can construct the curved-space generalization of the canonical kinetic term for a chiral multiplet coupled to a background gauge field. It is given by the following supersymmetric Lagrangian: Here R is the Ricci scalar on M 4 , 9 and the various background fields take their supersymmetric values.

A comment on global anomalies
The theory of a single chiral multiplet that we are considering has cubic and mixed U(1)gravitional anomalies for its U(1) f and U(1) R symmetries: and similarly for Tr(R 2 Q f ) and Tr(Q 2 f R). This could result in a violation of current conservation in a non-trivial background. Let us define the topological densities µν is the field strength of A (R) µ = A µ − 3 2 V µ , which couples to the R-symmetry current, and R µνρσ is the Riemann tensor.
In the presence of two supercharges, we have The first equality follows directly from (2.10) and the second relation was derived in [23] (it is also easily checked from (2.4) and (2.5)). Since P (f ) = 0, the Tr(Q 3 f ) and Tr(Q 2 f R) cubic anomalies do not lead to any violation of current conservation. On the other hand, P (g) will be non-zero in general. However, one can always write P (g) = ∇ µ X µ for X µ a non-covariant quantity, so that the properly shifted currents are conserved. In general, we can thus preserve U(1) f and U(1) R at the expense of general covariance [24]. (It was also noted in [23] that the integral of P (g) vanishes on backgrounds with two supercharges, so that all the integrated anomalies vanish.)

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In any case, for all the backgrounds considered in this paper, one can actually show that P (g) = 0, and therefore the U(1) f and U(1) R currents are properly conserved. 10 Therefore, we will not need to worry about these global anomalies in the following.
3 Complex structures and supersymmetry on T 2 × S 2 Any complex four-manifold with T 2 × S 2 topology is a ruled surface of genus one [4]. Such surfaces have been classified [4,25]. 11 In this paper, we consider a two-parameter family of complex manifolds obtained as quotients of C × S 2 . Let w, z be the complex coordinates on C and S 2 , respectively. We consider the identifications The quotient space is diffeomorphic to T 2 × S 2 . Here τ = τ 1 + iτ 2 is the modular parameter of the torus, and α, β are real parameters subject to the identifications α ∼ α+1, β ∼ β +1. We also introduce the complex parameter σ = τ α − β. Two choices of complex structure moduli τ, σ and τ ′ , σ ′ are equivalent if they give rise to the same identifications (3.1). These equivalences are generated by: These transformations generate a subgroup of PSL(3, Z), whose corresponding SL(3, Z) matrices are It is convenient to introduce real coordinates x, y, θ, ϕ on T 2 ×S 2 , where x, y are torus coordinates of period 2π, and θ ∈ [0, π], ϕ ∈ [0, 2π) are the standard angles on the sphere. The complex structure on the quotient (3.1) can be realized by the complex coordinates where the identifications (3.1) correspond to (x, y) ∼ (x + 2π, y) and (x, y) ∼ (x, y + 2π) on the real torus. The generators (3.2) of non-trivial identifications on the complex structure moduli space correspond to large diffeomorphisms of the underlying real manifold, which are given by the matrices (3.3) acting on the coordinates (x, y, ϕ) in the obvious way. 10 One can see that P (g) = 0 if h =h = 0, with h the metric function appearing in (2.4). One can also check that P (g) = 0 for the S 3 × S 1 background that we will consider in section 5.6. 11 A ruled surfaces of genus one is a CP 1 fiber bundle over a non-singular elliptic curve Σ1. The classification of such surfaces follows from the classification of one-dimensional affine fiber bundles over Σ1, with the ruled surfaces obtained by projectivisation [25]. It was shown in [4] that there are three classes of complex structures on T 2 × S 2 , denoted by S, S2n with n any positive integer, and A0. In this paper we consider the class S, which corresponds to ruled surfaces obtained from degree zero holomorphic line bundles over Σ1.

Supergravity background with round metric
One can preserve two supercharges on T 2 × S 2 for any choice of complex structure (3.1). We consider the metric which is compatible with the identification (3.1). Note that for generic values of the complex structure moduli, this metric has three real Killing vectors, corresponding to ∂ w , ∂w and z∂ z −z∂ z . (The additional Killing vectors K ± in (A.3) are not globally defined unless σ = 0.) In particular, we have the anti-holomorphic Killing vector K = ∂w and we can apply the general formulas (2.4), (2.5) for the supergravity background fields. In terms of the real coordinates (3.4), the metric (3.5) reads while the anti-holomorphic Killing vector K is given by Formula (2.5) simplifies greatly because the metric (3.5) is Kähler. We have 12 The salient feature of this background is that it involves a non-trivial R-symmetry line bundle L, with first Chern class Any field Φ of nonzero R-charge r must be a well-defined section of the line bundle L r , with transition functions between the northern (N ) and sourthern (S) patches. 13 It follows that the R-charge must be integer, r ∈ Z. In the canonical frame (2.6), e 1 = dw, e 2 = 2 1+|z| 2 dz, the Killing spinors are given by (2.7). In order for the holomorphic two-form (2.8) to be well-defined, s must satisfy under the identifications (3.1). We should offset (3.11) by some R-symmetry transformations, so that s is invariant as we go around the one-cycles of the torus. Therefore, any field Φ of R-charge r has twisted periodicities 13 By default, all quantities are written on the northern patch, Φ = Φ (N ) , with complex coordinates w, z.
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under (3.1). Finally, note that s is a non-trivial section of the canonical line bundle K but a trivial section of the total bundle K ⊗ L 2 , which is therefore trivial [1]. We will take s = 1 in the following. Note that the R-symmetry flux through the S 2 is necessary to preserve supersymmetry on T 2 × S 2 . This is in contrast to lower dimensional cases where supersymmetric backgrounds without flux exist on S 1 × S 2 [7] and S 2 [26,27]. Such backrgounds preserve four supercharges and do not admit an uplift to four dimensions [6].

Supersymmetric background gauge field
Let us also consider a supersymmetric background gauge multiplet for an Abelian symmetry U(1) f , which satisfy (2.10). We consider a real gauge field for simplicity. The most general such background gauge field preserving the isometries of (3.5) is given by up to gauge transformations, while the auxiliary field D is given in (2.10). Note that (3.14) The real parameters a x , a y are flat connections, which must be identified by a x ∼ a x + 1, a y ∼ a y + 1 due to large gauge transformations. It is also convenient to define a line bundle modulus [3] analogous to the complex structure modulus σ. The parameter g is an integer, giving us the quantized flux of (3.13) through the sphere. The discussion of the corresponding U(1) f line bundle is analogous to the discussion of the U(1) R bundle above.
In particular, a field Φ of Q f -charge q f has transition function Φ (N ) = e igq f (ϕ+αx+βy) Φ (S) between the northern and southern patches. It will be useful to define the shifted R-charge In the presence of the background gauge field (3.13), the twisted boundary conditions (3.12) for charged fields generalize to 14 under the identifications (3.1).
14 It is clear from the transition functions that there must be some twisted periodicities depending on q f g.
This choice of boundary conditions is symmetric between the northern and southern patches.

More general supersymmetric background
We can consider supersymmetric backgrounds on T 2 × S 2 with more general metrics than (3.5). Indeed, any Hermitian metric of the local form (2.4) is as good as any other. We can still retain the map (3.4) between real and complex coordinates, and thus the explicit form (3.7) for the Killing vector K. Let us note that the real and imaginary parts of the Killing vector K do not close in general, and consequently we have three Killing vectors ∂ x , ∂ y and ∂ ϕ . Thus we can consider a general background (2.4), (2.5) with the functions Ω(z,z), h(z,z) and c(z,z) depending on |z| 2 only. One can similarly consider more general background gauge fields than (3.13) with the same flux g through the S 2 .
For σ = 0, we need only have two Killing vectors ∂ x and ∂ y . In this special case, the T 2 × S 2 index that we will compute below does not keep track of the J 3 quantum number from the sphere.

The T 2 × S 2 index and canonical quantization
In this section, we compute the T 2 × S 2 partition function of a chiral multiplet as a supersymmetric index (1.6). The first step is to dimensionally reduce the theory over S 2 . Due to the presence of magnetic flux on the sphere, charged fields must be expanded in so-called monopole spherical harmonics [28], which are reviewed in appendix A. The second step is to quantize the resulting theory on the torus. The only contribution to the index will come from a finite number of short multiplets of the N = (0, 2) supersymmetry on the torus, arising from zero modes of the Dirac operator on the S 2 with magnetic flux. Consider the supersymmetric background with round metric (3.5) discussed in the previous section. We consider a free chiral multiplet of R-charge r and Q f -charge q f in that background. The bosonic part of the supersymmetric Lagrangian (2.16) can be written where we introduced the notation γ = 3 4 κ r − 2 3 , with κ the ambiguity in the background fields (3.8), and r is the shifted R-charge (3.16). Here and in the remainder of this section, the covariant derivatives along w,w only contain the U(1) f flat connection: The operator ∆ r S 2 in (4.1) is the scalar Laplacian on the sphere with a monopole, which is given by (A.7) appendix A. Note that R-charge r only enters through γ and the shifted Rcharge r. Indeed, the scalar field φ couples to both U(1) R and U(1) f through the covariant derivative (2.13), so that it effectively couples with electric charge r to a monopole of unit flux. 15 Let us also remark that the Laplacian (A.7) must be here interpreted in terms of 15 We also have couplings of φ to R and D in the second line of (2.16), which are crucial for supersymmetry and lead to the shift of the scalar Laplacian by r 2 in (4.1).

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the complex coordinate z in (3.4), effectively shifting the angle ϕ to ϕ + αx + βy in the definition of the monopole harmonics. (The monopole harmonics are then a complete basis of sections of the monopole line bundle on T 2 × S 2 introduced in section 3.1.) We expand the field φ in scalar monopole harmonics, where the sum is over j = |r| 2 , |r| 2 + 1, . . ., m = −j, . . . , j. Similarly, we expand the auxiliary field F in monopole harmonics of electric charge r − 2: We similarly expand the bosonic fields of the antichiral multiplet according to φ = a jm Y † r jm and F = f jm Y † r−2 jm . Note that there is a mismatch in the SO (3) representations that appear in the expansion of φ and F for r = 1. When r > 1, all values of j ≥ r 2 exist for both fields but one additional representation with j = r 2 − 1 is found for F . When r < 1, it is φ which has one unmatched representation, with j = − r 2 . The fermionic part of the supersymmetric Lagrangian (2.16) is with γ defined above, while the explicit form of the Dirac operator in a monopole background, −i ∇ r S 2 , is given in (A.13). The eigenvalues λ rj of −i ∇ r S 2 are given in (A.14). The important thing for us is that there are fermionic zero-modes, We expand the fermions in spinors spherical harmonics of electric charge r − 1. For r > 1, it is convenient to write The second sum comes from the zero modes, with j 0 = r 2 − 1. For r < 1, we similarly write with j 0 = |r| 2 . For the fermion ψ of opposite chirality, we takẽ in the case r > 1, and similarly for r < 1.

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Plugging these mode expansions into the Lagrangian (4.1), (4.5), we obtain a decoupled theory for each angular momentum j, m. For simplicity of notation, we will drop the subscripts j, m on the modes a, b, c, f in the following. The modes organize themselves into representations of an N = (0, 2) supersymmetry algebra on the torus. Let us consider each case separately:

Short multiplets
The zero modes on the S 2 give rise to short multiplets of N = (0, 2) supersymmetry on the torus. There are three cases, depending on the shifted R-charge (3.16): Case r = 1. For r = 1, there are no zero modes.
Case r > 1. The fermionic zero modes for r > 1 were given in (4.7), with j 0 = r 2 − 1 and m = −j 0 , . . . , j 0 . They constitute a spin j 0 representation of SO(3). The corresponding two-dimensional fermions b j 0 m are paired with the corresponding modes f j 0 m of F . The short multiplet (b, f ) realizes a fermi multiplet [29] of the N = (0, 2) supersymmetry, These variations are simply a truncation of (4.10) for λ = 0. The supersymmetric Lagrangian reads (4.14) 16 Note the dependence on the ambiguity parameter γ, which is now an arbitrary constant (for simplicity we assumed a constant κ, thus preserving all the isometries of the background). In the following we tacitly assume that γ is real, although the generalization to complex γ is straightforward.

Twisted boundary conditions on the torus
We started with a theory on T 2 × S 2 and reduced it to a theory on a torus with modular parameter τ . At first sight, all dependence on the second complex structure parameter σ = τ α − β has disappeared from the effective theories (4.12), (4.14), (4.16). However, this dependence remains through twisted boundary conditions for the fields on the torus. Consider the expansion (4.3) of the scalar φ. The monopole harmonics Y r jm satisfy Y r jm ∼ e 2πi(m+ r 2 )α Y r jm for x ∼ x+2π, and Y r jm ∼ e 2πi(m+ r 2 )β Y r jm for y ∼ y +2π. Since φ satisfies the boundary conditions (3.17), each mode a of angular momentum j, m must satisfy a(w + 2π,w + 2π) = e −2πimα a(w,w) , a(w + 2πτ,w + 2πτ ) = e −2πimβ a(w,w) . (4.17) The modes b, c, f also satisfy these boundary conditions. 17 The momentum operators along the one-cycles of the torus on modes a, b, c, f of angular momentum m are P x = −i∂ x + mα , P y = −i∂ y + mβ . In the following, we will consider y to be the "time" coordinate for canonical quantization while x will be the space coordinate. Then P x corresponds to the momentum denoted by P in (1.7), while −iP y corresponds to the Hamiltonian.

Canonical quantization and supersymmetric index
Let us now compute the index (1.6). To do so, we could further reduce the two-dimensional theories of the previous subsection on a circle, to obtain a quantum mechanics for states on S 1 × S 2 . However, it will be more illuminating to directly quantize the theory on the torus. The only states that contribute to the index sit in short multiplets (4.13) or (4.15). We will focus on those in the following. For r = 1 there are no short multiplets, all states are paired by supersymmetry, and the index is simply Let us next consider the non-trivial cases r = 1. We choose the direction y on the torus to be the time direction for canonical quantization. The boundary condition along the remaining spatial direction x is given by the first line in (4.17).

Case r > 1: the Fermi multiplet
The theory (4.14) is particularly simple. The auxiliary field f has no on-shell degrees of freedom and the equation of motion of b is Dwb = 0. It follows from (4.13) that the supercharges annihilate all the states in this sector. Let us also note that the index for r > 1 is trivially independent of the constant γ, since it does not appear in (4.14).
The fermionic wave functions are given by The canonical commutation relations imply 21) and the Hamiltonian is Recall that σ = τ α − β and ν = τ a x − a y . We assume that the geometric moduli τ, σ and ν are given generic values, such that the Hamiltonian has no zero modes. The operators b k are either annihilation or creations operators, depending on k. Demanding that the real part of H (b,f ) be positive, we find that b k is an annihilation operator for k + mα + q f a x > 0, while it is a creation operator for k + mα + q f a x < 0. Upon reordering b k andb k so that all modes have positive excitation energy, we obtain a Casimir energy: (4.23) In the second line we used zeta function regularization, 18 and l m is defined as the integer such that l m < mα + q f a x < l m + 1. We now compute the index Here the trace includes a sum over the r − 1 copies of the (b, f ) multiplets (with m = − r 2 + 1, . . . , r 2 − 1). Let us define the fugacities Using the explicit form of the Hamiltonian in (4.22), the single particle index is given by Here we used the Riemann zeta function after splitting the sum in (4.23). Using the Hurwitz zeta function instead, we would find an additional term − i 2τ (mσ + q f ν) 2 . We are assuming that this quadratic term is scheme dependent.

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The first sum over k comes from the single particle states b k |0 with k + mα + q f a x < 0. They have quantum numbers P = −k, J 3 = −m, Q f = −q f . It is convenient to change k → −k such that these states are weighted by q k x −m t −q f . Similarly, the second sum over k in (4.26) corresponds to states b k |0 with k + mα + q f a x > 0. The full index is obtained by plethystic exponentiation [30][31][32][33]: where we also included the contribution from the Casimir energy (4.23). Up to a constant phase which we discard, the term inside the square brackets can be written as Here we introduced the theta function [34] θ 1 (ρ, τ ) = 2q with y = e 2πiρ , and the eta function η(τ ) = q 1/24 k≥1 (1 − q k ). The index for a fourdimensional N = 1 chiral multiplet of shifted R-charge r > 1 is then given by This is the result (1.4) advertised in the introduction. It also agrees with the result of [11,12] for N = (0, 2) fermi multiplets.

Case r < 1: the chiral multiplet
Consider the N = (0, 2) chiral mutiplet with Lagrangian (4.16). Unlike for the fermi multiplet, not every state in this sector contributes to the index. The equations of motion are and their most general solution takes the form a(w,w) = e iq f vww a H (w) + e i(q f vw+γ)w a AH (w) , c(w,w) = e i(q f vw+γ)w c AH (w) . (4.31) It follows from (4.15) that the anti-holomorphic modes a AH , c AH are paired together and therefore do not contribute to the index. We thus focus on the holomorphic modes of a.

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We have the mode expansion (4.32) The canonical commutation relations are equivalent to Depending on the value of k, the operators a k are either creation or annihilation operators, like for the (b, f ) multiplet discussed above. For k such that k + mα + q f a x + γ > 0,ã k is the creation operators. When k + mα + q f a x + γ < 0, we change notation k → −k and a −k is the creation operator. As before, we are assuming that the geometric parameters are generic. The Hamiltonian acting on the "holomorphic" states (created by a k or a k ) reads . (4.34) The complete Hamiltonian, including the contribution from the anti-holomorphic modes, is rather more complicated and will be omitted here. The operators a k ,ã k in (4.34) are not normal ordered. As in the r > 1 case, this leads to a zero point energy which we compute by zeta function regularization.
One can obtain the index for the four-dimensional chiral multiplet with r < 1 by summing over the |r| + 1 copies of the (a, c) multiplet and using the same arguments as in the last subsection. One finds .

(4.35)
This gives (1.5), and it agrees with the result of [11,12] for N = (0, 2) chiral multiplets. Note that the arbitrary parameter γ does not contribute to the final answer.

Modular properties of I
Let us briefly comment on the modular properties of the N = 1 chiral multiplet index I Φ T 2 ×S 2 obtained above. This partition function depends on three continuous parameters: τ , σ and ν. The first two parameters are the complex structures moduli of T 2 × S 2 while the third is a holomorphic line bundle modulus for the U(1) f global symmetry. Those are the only continuous parameters on which the partition function is allowed to depend [3].

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As explained in section 3, two different values of the parameters τ and σ correspond to the same complex structure if they are related by the following transformations: These operations generate a slight generalization of the modular group of the torus. While one may naively expect the partition function to be modular invariant, this is actually not the case. Since these transformations correspond to large diffeomorphisms, the failure of modular invariance is interpreted as a gravitational anomaly. It would be interesting to understand this point better.
The modular group also acts on ν in the standard way, S : ν → ν/τ and T : ν → ν. Additionally, since the flat connections a x and a y are identified as a x ∼ a x + 1, a y ∼ a y + 1 by large gauge transformations, we have the additional transformations U ′ : ν → ν + τ and V ′ : ν → ν + 1 which are independent of U and V . These large gauge transformations U ′ , V ′ are also anomalous.
Using the representation of the index in terms of the theta function (4.28), one can find its behaviour under the modular transformations described above. We have the following transformations: In this work, we will not adress the question of whether it is possible to restore some of the modular properties by tuning some local terms. A better understanding of the scheme dependence of our answer would require a systematic understanding of the allowed supersymmetric counterterms, similar to [35,36] in three dimensions. One can however see by inspection that it is not possible to achieve a fully modular invariant partition function.

The chiral multiplet partition function on M 4
In this section, we propose a simple method to compute the N = 1 chiral multiplet partition function on any four-dimensional background with two supercharges. We evaluate the path integral explicitly using supersymmetric localization; see for instance [13][14][15][37][38][39][40] for similar arguments.
After introducing some formalism in subsections 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3, we will explain our path integral result in subsection 5.4. In the remaining subsections we will apply our method to the case of T 2 × S 2 and S 3 × S 1 .

Building a frame from the killing spinors
Consider a background with two supercharges. From the Killing spinors ζ and ζ, we can build the vectors 19 Note that Y andȲ have R-charge ±2, respectively. The vectors K and Y are antiholomorphic with respect to the complex structure J µ ν defined in (2.2), whileK and Y are holomorphic. Moreover, Y andȲ are valued in their respective R-symmetry line bundles L ±2 . The vectors (5.1) are normalized such that K µK µ = Y µȲ µ = 1 2 , and all other contractions of two of the vectors (5.1) vanish. These vectors provide a (R-charged) frame which will be very convenient below.
The vector K is Killing, as already mentioned in section 2, while the three other vectors satisfy The covariant derivative D µ was defined in (2.13). These relations follow from the Killing spinor equations (2.1). It will be convenient to define the following operators acting on charged scalars, Note thatL Y andLȲ shift the R-charge by ±2, respectively. The following lemma will be useful: This lemma is most easily proven in the adapted coordinates w, z, in terms of which we have Here the functions Ω(z,z), h(z,z), c(z,z) and s(z,z) are the ones appearing in (2.4), (2.5). Therefore, we see that (5.4) is equivalent to with the covariant derivative acting on scalar fields. For a field of R-charge r and Q f charge where F µν is the field strength of the R-symmetry gauge field A µ and f µν is defined in (2.9). We already stated that f µν satisfies (2.10). We can similarly show that the Killing spinor equations imply

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in the presence of two Killing spinors ζ, ζ. (The first equation Fwz = 0 follows from the existence of a single Killing spinor ζ.) This proves (5.4). One can also compute Here R is the Ricci scalar and D the auxiliary background field given by (2.10).

The chiral multiplet revisited
Consider a chiral multiplet coupled to an external gauge field, as discussed in section 2.3. For a chiral multiplet Φ = (φ, ψ, F ) of R-charge r and Q f -charge q f , we can use the Killing spinor ζ to define The fields B, C are anticommuting scalars of R-charge r − 2, r, respectively. In terms of the variables (φ, B, C, F ), the transformation rules (2.14) read For an anti-chiral multiplet Φ = ( φ, ψ, F ) of charges −r and −q f , we use ζ to define The supersymmetry transformations (2.15) become

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The results (5.10), (5.12), (5.13) should be compared to (4.10), (4.12). We will see in the following that we can take the analogy to the T 2 × S 2 computation further. For any background M 4 with two supercharges, only modes in shortened multiplets will contribute to the N = 1 chiral multiplet partition function Z Φ M 4 -those short multiplets are of the form (B, F ) or (φ, C), similarly to the fermi and chiral N = (0, 2) multiplets of section 4.

Reality condition and inner product
We would like to evaluate the path integral of a chiral multiplet with Lagrangian (5.13) explicitly. In order to define the Euclidian path integral, we need to choose a contour of integration. We will assign the following reality conditions to the fields φ, B, C, F in a chiral multiplet of R-charge r: with Ω and s the quantities defined in section 2. This prescription is consistent with the complexified R-symmetry transformations and dimensional analysis (recall that s has Rcharge 2). It will also be useful to consider appropriate inner products on field space. For the fields φ and C of R-charge r, let us define the inner product Similarly, for the fields B and F of R-charge r − 2, we define We will denote by H r and H r−2 the corresponding Hilbert spaces. Note that the operator iLȲ acting on φ or C and the operator iΩ 2L Y acting on B or F are maps between different Hilbert spaces, iLȲ : while iL K and iΩ 2LK act inside H r or H r−2 (depending on the R-charge). Moreover, the two operators (5.17) are mutually adjoint (see appendix B): (5.18)

Localization and unpaired eigenvalues
Let us consider the following δ-exact deformation of the N = 1 chiral multiplet theory (5.13): This term is equal to (5.13) itself with κ = 0. (Note that the full (5.13) is also δ-exact.) It can be written

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where we introduced Ψ = (B, C) T and Ψ = ( B, C). Let us define the kinetic operators Note the appearance of factors of Ω 2 in this definition, necessary to make these operators dimensionless. Using (5.14) and (5.21), we can write the localizing action in term of the inner products (5.15) and (5.16) as where we defined By a standard supersymmetric localization argument, we can deform the original theory by (5.22) with an arbitrarily large coefficient without affecting the path integral, which therefore reduces to a ratio of functional determinants, In deriving (5.24), we are assuming that φ = 0 is the only relevant saddle point. (This is true for generic values of the complex structure and line bundle moduli.) This result can be simplified further. Let us first note that where we used [L K ,LȲ ] = 0. Taking the determinant on both sides of (5.25), we find .

(5.26)
Here we denoted by iL (r−2) K and iL (r) K the operator iL K acting on H r−2 and H r , respectively. Consider next the adjoint operators (5.17). A standard argument shows that and that the non-zero eigenvalues ofLȲ Ω 2L Y and Ω 2L YLȲ are in one-to-one correspondence. In other words, iΩ 2L Y provides an isomorphism between the space of eigenfunctions ofLȲ Ω 2L Y in H r−2 with non-vanishing eigenvalues and the space of eigenfunctions of Ω 2L YLȲ in H r with non-vanishing eigenvalues. Additionally, by (5.4) this isomorphism commutes with iL K . It follows that all the eigenvalues of iL K which lie outside of Ker(iΩ 2L Y ) or Ker(iLȲ ) cancel from (5.26). Therefore, we find that .
(5.28) Similar arguments appeared, for instance, in [13,15,40]. Practically speaking, the partition function reduces to with the eigenvalues λ B , λ φ determined by the following BPS-like linear equations: It is also useful to rewrite these equations in terms of the complex coordinates w, z using (5.5): Let us note that the equationL Y B = 0 in (5.30) is a condition for the shortening of the N = 1 chiral multiplet. For a solution of this equation, it is consistent to set C = 0 (and also φ = 0) because B disappears from its equation of motion. We are then left with a short multiplet (B, F ) akin to the (b, f ) multiplet we found for T 2 × S 2 in section 4. Similar remarks apply to (φ, C) and the (a, c) multiplet of our T 2 × S 2 index computation.
The equations (5.31) are also consistent with known constraints on the parameter dependence of N = 1 supersymmetric partition functions [3]. We will see in the examples that the eigenvalues λ B , λ φ depend holomorphically on complex structure moduli and line bundle moduli (up to an arbitrary overall rescaling). Moreover, for any background with two supercharges the equations (5.31) are independent of the ambiguity κ in (2.5). It is indeed expected that the partition function of a chiral multiplet be independent of κ, because this free theory possesses an FZ multiplet [3].
In the rest of this section, we will compute (5.29) in two interesting examples. For M 4 = T 2 × S 2 , we will reproduce the canonical quantization result of section 4. For M 4 = S 3 × S 1 , we will reproduce the previously known result [16,17] in a new and elegant manner.

The case of T 2 × S 2
Let us compute the one-loop determinant (5.29) for the T 2 × S 2 background of section 3. Consider the B modes first. They are solutions of the first line in (5.31), which becomes Here r is the shifted R-charge and vw the U(1) f flat connection, as defined in section 3.2. The second equation in (5.32) implies It is convenient to consider eigenmodes of the angular momentum operator J 3 = z∂ z −z∂z − r−2 2 on the sphere (see appendix A). J 3 B = mB implies f 1 ∝ z m+ r−2 2 . We also consider definite momentum n x , n y ∈ Z on the torus. Taking into account the boundary conditions (3.17), we find with r 2 ≤ m ≤ − r 2 . In particular such solutions exist only for r ≤ 0. The eigenvalues λ φ are given by These modes correspond to the second set of spinor zero modes in (A.17). Therefore, we have three distinct cases, depending on the shifted R-charge r ∈ Z. If r = 1, all the bosonic and fermionic modes are paired together by supersymmetry and therefore the partition function is If r > 1, only the B modes contribute to the partition function, with eigenvalues (5.34): Here we rescaled away the overall factor of i 2τ 2 in (5.34). 20 If r < 1, the φ mode eigenvalues (5.36) are the ones which contribute: The infinite products (5.38), (5.39) need to be properly regularized, which can be done using zeta function regularizaton -see in particular Example 13 of [41]. This leads to (1.4), (1.5).

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The case of S 3 × S 1 : the elliptic gamma function The supersymmetric partition function of N = 1 theories on S 3 ×S 1 , Z S 3 ×S 1 , has been wellstudied in the literature. It computes a supersymmetric index for the theory quantized on S 3 [30,42], which has been computed exactly for rather general N = 1 gauge theories [16,17]. In particular, the chiral multiplet partition function is given by a certain elliptic JHEP03(2014)040 gamma function [17]. In the following, we will rederive that last result using the method of section 5.4. Let us consider a complex manifold M p,q 4 diffeomorphic to S 3 × S 1 called a primary Hopf surface of the first type. It is obtained as a quotient of C 2 − (0, 0): Here z 1 , z 2 are the coordinates on C 2 − (0, 0), and p, q are complex structure parameters. It was realized recently that the partition function Z S 3 ×S 1 is a locally holomorphic function on the complex structure moduli space of M p,q 4 [3]. We refer to [3] for more details and references. 21 It will be convenient to introduce two complex parameters σ = σ 1 +iσ 2 and τ = τ 1 +iτ 2 (with σ 1,2 , τ 1,2 real) such that For generic values of p, q, M p,q 4 admits two supercharges [3]. In the rest of this subsection, we will consider the subcase σ 2 = τ 2 for simplicity. We consider the following Hermitian metric on M p,q 4 (with |p| = |q|): To take advantage of the general discussion of section 2, we introduce new coordinates These coordinates cover S 3 × S 1 except for the locus z 1 = 0, which can be covered with coordinates w ′ = w−i log z, z ′ = 1 z . The w, z coordinates (5.43) are subject to the following identifications: It is convenient to consider real coordinates x, θ, ϕ, χ on S 3 × S 1 , with x ∈ [0, 2π) the coordinate on the S 1 and θ ∈ [0, π], ϕ, χ ∈ [0, 2π) the coordinates on the S 3 . In terms of these angular coordinates, The periodicities (5.44) correspond to x ∼ x + 2π and ϕ ∼ ϕ + 2π, respectively. In terms of the w, z coordinates, the metric (5.42) takes the form

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The resulting supersymmetric background is studied in more detail in appendix C. In addition to the supergravity background fields, we also consider a background gauge field for a U(1) f internal symmetry, (5.47) which preserves the same supercharges as (5.46). Let us also define the fugacity u = e i(ar−ia i ) . (5.48) The complex parameter a r − ia i is a holomorphic line bundle modulus [3].
For generic values of τ 1 , σ 1 and σ 2 = τ 2 , the background (5.46) has a U(1) 3 isometry, corresponding to rotations along the real angles x, ϕ, χ mentioned above. Supersymmetry dictates twisted periodicities for R-charged fields going around these angles. The corresponding momentum operators acting on fields of R-charge r are given by These operators have integer eigenvalues. Note that Let us compute the partition function for a chiral multiplet of R-charge r and Q fcharge q f , according to (5.29), (5.31). Using the results of appendix C, the eigenvalue equations for the unpaired modes of type B read where vw = − 1 2iσ 2 (a r − ia i ). We also require B to be an eigenmode of the operators (5.49), with P x B = n 0 B , P ϕ B = n 1 B , P χ B = n 2 B , n 0 , n 1 , n 2 ∈ Z . (5.52) Therefore, the first equation in (5.51) together with (5.50) imply The B modes are given explicitly by A similar expression holds in the w ′ , z ′ patch, with |B| ∼ |z ′ | n 1 near z ′ = 0. Normalizabiltiy of the modes restricts the allowed values of n 1 , n 2 to n 1 , n 2 ≥ 0. Similarly, the φ modes solving (5.31) are given by The integers n 0 , n 1 , n 2 are again the eigenvalues of (5.49). Nomalizability imposes n 1 , n 2 ≤ 0. Plugging the eigenvalues (5.53), (5.56) into (5.29) and renaming some of the integers, we find the partition function Note that this formula is a natural generalization of the three-dimensional localization result for the squashed S 3 [15,39]. The result (5.57) can be regularized using Barnes' multiple zeta function [43,44]. 22 In term of the parameters p, q, u defined in (5.41) and (5.48), we obtain The function Γ e (t; p, q) is the elliptic gamma function. 23 We thus reproduced the known result for the N = 1 chiral multiplet S 3 × S 1 partition function, without relying on the supersymmetric index point of view of [16][17][18]. 24 The answer is locally holomorphic in the geometric moduli τ, σ and a r − ia i , as expected [3]. In addition to the expected gamma function, there is an interesting prefactor e iπA in (5.58), with A given by Note that A is a cubic polynomial in r − 1 and q f , which are the R-and Q f -charges of the fermion in the N = 1 chiral multiplet. It would be interesting to understand whether this A is physical or whether it can be removed by a local counterterm.

Computation with arbitrary hermitian metrics
In the two examples above, we chose rather simple Hermitian metrics for ease of presentation. However, it is easy to generalize the computation of section 5.4 to arbitrary backgrounds with two supercharges. Consider for instance the case of T 2 × S 2 with an arbitrary Hermitian metric compatible with a given complex structure (with parameters 22 One can rewrite (5.57) in terms of triple gamma functions and use Corollary 6.2 of [44]. 23 It can be defined by 24 See [45] for a related computation of the N = 4 index using localization.

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τ, σ). Using the w, z coordinates, we can solve the eigenvalue equations (5.30) with the ansatz B = e i(nx+ r−2 2 α)x e i(ny+ r−2 2 β)y e i(m+ r−2 2 )ϕ B 0 (θ) , φ = e i(nx+ r 2 α)x e i(ny+ r 2 β)y e i(m+ r 2 )ϕ φ 0 (θ) , (5.60) in the northern patch. Here x, y, ϕ, θ are the real coordinates introduced in (3.4). This ansatz is dictated by the periodicities (3.17) (and by the general properties of the spin operator J 3 on S 2 with magnetic flux), which are independent of the details of the metric (although they do depend on the choice of complex coordinates). Using the expression (3.7) for ∂w, we directly find the eigenvalues λ B (5.34) and λ φ (5.36). Possible restrictions on the values of the integers in λ B,φ can be obtained from a careful analysis of the profiles B 0 (θ), φ 0 (θ) near θ = 0, π, asking that the modes be normalizable. (Understanding the limit θ ∼ 0, π is much simpler than solving for the full profiles, which cannot be done in general.) A similar analysis can be done for S 3 × S 1 . One thus confirms explicitly, in our simple examples, that the partition function on M 4 is independent of the Hermitian metric [3].

B.1 Adjoint operators
Let us prove that the operators iLȲ and iΩ 2L Y in (5.17) are mutually adjoint. We have in the notation of section 2. It follows directly from the definition (5.3) that with the kinetic operators (5.21). We want to compute the quantity Let us consider φ a bosonic solution of (B.3), which we can also take to be an eigenstate of iL K since iL K commutes with ∆ bos . Let us moreover assume that the operator iΩ 2LK also commutes with ∆ bos , so that we can diagonalize ∆ bos , iL K and iΩ 2LK simultaneously. 25 We thus have We can use φ to construct its matching fermionic eigenstates. Define (B.6) 25 We easily see that [∆ bos , Ω 2LK ] = 0 if and only if Fzw = Fzw = 0, in addition to (5.7). We have Fzw = ∂zAw, Fzw = ∂zAw, and Aw = 3 4 κΩ 2 − i 2c 2 ∂zh. Recall that κ is a function satisfying K µ ∂µκ = 0 but otherwise arbitrary. The partition function of a chiral multiplet is independent of κ [3] and we are free to make a convenient choice. Even though such a choice is possible locally, there could be subtleties with setting Aw to a constant globally.

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This mapping is precisely the one we would naively expect from the supersymmetry transformations (5.10). The fermions Ψ 1 , Ψ 2 generate an invariant subspace of ∆ fer , which reads One can diagonalize this matrix to find two eigenvalues Λ f,± whose product equals Λ b . Therefore, a bosonic eigenstate φ with eigenvalue Λ b is generally paired with two fermionic eigenstates with eigenvalues Λ f,± , such that Λ f,+ Λ f,− = Λ b . One can easily invert this map. Therefore, the only contributions to (B.4) come from unpaired modes, which are of two types. Firstly, we can have a bosonic mode φ which is not completely cancelled by its fermionic partners. This happens if and only ifLȲ φ = 0, and one can show that the net contribution to the partition function is the eigenvalue of the operator iL K : The eigenvalue λ φ effectively contributes to the denominator of (B.4). Secondly, we can have a fermionic eigenmode with no paired boson, which must be of the type Ψ 0 = (B, 0) T . Such a mode is a solution of the eigenvalue equations: The eigenvalue λ B contributes to the numerator of (5.24). This proves (5.29), (5.30). While this argument is very concrete, it is however less general than the discussion above (5.28) since we had to assume that [∆ bos , Ω 2LK ] = 0. C S 3 × S 1 supersymmetric backgrounds In order to preserve at least two supercharges on S 3 × S 1 , we need to consider the following quotient of C 2 − (0, 0) [3]: (z 1 , z 2 ) ∼ (p z 1 , q z 2 ) , 0 < |p| ≤ |q| < 1 .
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