4d index to 3d index and 2d topological quantum field theory

We compute the 4d superconformal index for N=1, 2 gauge theories on S^1 (p, 1), where L (p, 1) is a lens space. We find that the 4d N=1, 2 index on S^1 (p, 1) reduces to a 3d N=2, 4 index on S^1S^2 in the large p limit, and to a 3d partition function on a squashed L (p, 1) when the size of the temporal S^1 shrinks to zero. As an application of our index, we study 4d N=2 superconformal field theories arising from the 6d N= (2, 0) A₁ theory on a punctured Riemann surface, and conjecture the existence of a 2d topological quantum field theory on whose correlation function coincides with the 4d N=2 index on S^1 (p, 1).