Spectral networks and snakes (Q2442695)

This paper continues the analysis of geometric objects called spectral networks in [Ann. Henri Poincaré 14, No. 7, 1643--1731 (2013; Zbl 1288.81132)] and of framed BPS states in [Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 17, No. 2, 241--397 (2013; Zbl 1290.81146)] by the same authors, while Fock and Goncharov introduced the notion of a snake associated to a vector space in \(V\) as an oriented edge path of an triangle of lines in \(V\). Though spectral networks seem to be widely unknown and very unfamiliar objects, the related subject of supersymmetric 4-dimensional quantum field theory is a common subject of many recent articles. By now, there are many new insights into the spectrum of BPS states. One of the virtues of spectral networks is that they provide an approach to a description of BPS degeneracies. They also provide mathematical applications to the theory of character varieties, moduli spaces of local systems and higher Teichmüller theory, and so the purpose of the present paper is to ``apply and illustrate the techniques of spectral networks''.