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Keywords:
elliptic hypergeometric function; hypergeometric series on root systems; basic hypergeometric integrals; hyperbolic hypergeometric integrals; superconformal index; supersymmetric duality; Seiberg duality; mirror symmetry
elliptic hypergeometric function; hypergeometric series on root systems; basic hypergeometric integrals; hyperbolic hypergeometric integrals; superconformal index; supersymmetric duality; Seiberg duality; mirror symmetry
Summary:
The purpose of these notes is to give a short survey of an interesting connection between partition functions of supersymmetric gauge theories and hypergeometric functions and to present the recent progress in this direction.
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