Framed BPS states (Q2446516)

There are many interesting directions for research involving both the mathematical and physical aspects of framed BPS states in super-symmetric field theories. The present article develops and explains many details of this theory on 56 pages and indicates some interesting connections to cluster algebras. This comprehensive exposition concentrates on line operators which leave super-symmetries unbroken. In focus is a special class of so-called \textit{framed BPS states}. The authors provide another proof of the Kontsevich-Soibelman wall-crossing formula which finally provides a new physical interpretation of the Darboux coordinates for the moduli space. In particular, the notion of a \textit{protected spin character} is defined in such a manner that their generating functions admit a multiplication which defines a deformation of the algebra of holomorphic functions on the moduli space. The text provides a considerable background for researchers in mathematics and theoretical physics and suggests a number of interesting directions for future research.