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We study globally supersymmetric 3d gauge theories on curved manifolds by describing the coupling of 3d topological gauge theories, with both Yang-Mills and Chern-Simons terms in the action, to background topological gravity. In our approach, the Seifert condition for manifolds supporting global supersymmetry is elegantly deduced from the BRST transformations of topological gravity. A cohomological characterization of the geometrical moduli which affect the partition function is obtained. In the Seifert context the Chern-Simons topological (framing) anomaly is BRST trivial. We compute explicitly the corresponding local Wess-Zumino functional. As an application, we obtain the dependence on the Seifert moduli of the partition function of 3d supersymmetric gauge theory on the squashed sphere by solving the anomalous topological Ward identities, in a regularization independent way and without the need of evaluating any functional determinant.
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Imbimbo, C., Rosa, D. Topological anomalies for Seifert 3-manifolds. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 68 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2015)068
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