Check-operators and quantum spectral curves

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2017.047MaRDI QIDQ2360314zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Mironov, Aleksey Morozov

Publication date 3 July 2017

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.03057

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zbMATH Keywords

check-operatorsmatrix modelsmodular kernel in CFTSeiberg-Witten theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems (14H70) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: We review the basic properties of effective actions of families of theories (i.e., the actions depending on additional non-perturbative moduli along with perturbative couplings), and their description in terms of operators (called check-operators), which act on the moduli space. It is this approach that led to constructing the (quantum) spectral curves and what is now nicknamed the EO/AMM topological recursion. We explain how the non-commutative algebra of check-operators is related to the modular kernels and how symplectic (special) geometry emerges from it in the classical (Seiberg-Witten) limit, where the quantum integrable structures turn into the well studied classical integrability. As time goes, these results turn applicable to more and more theories of physical importance, supporting the old idea that many universality classes of low-energy effective theories contain matrix model

Review text

This paper is a review of the basic properties of effective actions of families of theories (i.e., the actions depending on additional non-perturbative moduli along with perturbative couplings), and their description in terms of operators (called check-operators), which act on the moduli space. This is a review of earlier results mostly described in [\textit{A. S. Alexandrov} et al., Fortschr. Phys. 53, No. 5--6, 512--521 (2005; Zbl 1065.81103); Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 21, No. 12, 2481--2517 (2006; Zbl 1098.81075); ibid. A 24, No. 27, 4939--4998 (2009; Zbl 1179.81127); ibid. A 19, No. 24, 4127--4163 (2004; Zbl 1087.81051)] and [\textit{D. Galakhov} et al.,``\(S\)-duality and modular transformation as a non-perturbative deformation of the ordinary \(pq\)-duality, J. High Energy Phys. 2014, No. 6, Article ID 050, 24 p. (2014)]. In particular, the check-operators were introduced in [\textit{A. S. Alexandrov} et al., Fortschr. Phys. 53, No. 5--6, 512--521 (2005; Zbl 1065.81103); Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 21, No. 12, 2481--2517 (2006; Zbl 1098.81075)], where their properties were discussed. Among the check-operators, there is the main check-operator with a crucial property. In a different situation, this main check-operator was discussed in [Galakhov et al., loc. cit.]. The authors introduced and explained the very important notion of check-operator: the operator that acts on the moduli space of theories (or vacua/solutions). They constructed the operator manifestly in the simplest example of the Hermitian matrix model and in a more involved example of the two-dimensional conformal field theory, and demonstrated its use by deriving the corresponding Seiberg-Witten structures and the quantum spectral curves. They also illustrated the usefulness of the concept by a simple evaluation of the kernel of modular transformation of the conformal blocks done in terms of the check-operators. The calculation used a wonderful relation (a crucial property), which provides the impressive example of the properties and the relevance of check-operators for the quantization theory. The paper is divided into six sections entitled : Introduction, Multiple solutions to the Virasoro constraints, Check-operators, Seiberg-Witten (SW) like solutions and integrable properties, Quantum spectral curves, Quantum curves from degenerate conformal blocks, Modular kernels in conformal field theory and Conclusion.

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