Codimension two defects and the Springer correspondence

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Authors Aswin Balasubramanian

Publication date 6 March 2017

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.06311

zbMATH Keywords

geometric representation theorysupersymmetric quantum field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Applications of linear algebraic groups to the sciences (20G45) Geometric Langlands program: representation-theoretic aspects (22E57) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: One can associate an invariant to a large class of regular codimension two defects of the six dimensional $(0,2)$ SCFT $mathscrX[j]$ using the classical Springer correspondence. Such an association allows a simple description of S-duality of associated Gaiotto-Witten boundary conditions in $mathcalN=4$ SYM for arbitrary gauge group and by extension, a determination of certain local aspects of class $mathcalS$ constructions. I point out that the problem of extit{classifying} the corresponding boundary conditions in $mathcalN=4$ SYM is intimately tied to possible symmetry breaking patterns in the bulk theory. Using the Springer correspondence and the representation theory of Weyl groups, I construct a pair of functors between the class of boundary conditions in the theory in the phase with broken gauge symmetry and those in the phase with unbroken gauge symmetry.

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