%0 Journal Article %J Journal of Geometry and Physics %D 2017 %T Gauge theories on compact toric surfaces, conformal field theories and equivariant Donaldson invariants %A Mikhail Bershtein %A Giulio Bonelli %A Massimiliano Ronzani %A Alessandro Tanzini %K AGT %K Donaldson invariants %K Equivariant localization %K Exact partition function %K Supersymmetry %K Virasoro conformal blocks %X

We show that equivariant Donaldson polynomials of compact toric surfaces can be calculated as residues of suitable combinations of Virasoro conformal blocks, by building on AGT correspondence between $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories and two-dimensional conformal field theory. Talk presented by A.T. at the conference Interactions between Geometry and Physics — in honor of Ugo Bruzzo’s 60th birthday 17–22 August 2015, Guarujá, São Paulo, Brazil, mostly based on Bawane et al. (0000) and Bershtein et al. (0000).

%B Journal of Geometry and Physics %V 118 %P 40 - 50 %G eng %U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0393044017300165 %R https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomphys.2017.01.012