Sasakian quiver gauge theories and instantons on Calabi-Yau cones (Q727679)

In this paper the authors introduce new quiver gauge theories which can be associated with Sasaki-Einstein manifolds \(S^3/\Gamma\) where \(\Gamma\) is a finite subgroup of \(\mathrm{SU}(2)\cong S^3\) with its standard metric. These new quiver gauge theories are put in comparison on the one hand with quiver gauge theories associated to Calabi-Yau cones \(C(S^3/\Gamma)\) (same as singular multi-Eguchi-Hanson or ALE Gibbons-Hawking spaces of all the \(ADE\)-types) and on the other hand with quiver gauge theories on the corresponding coset spaces of \(\mathbb {CP}^1\). The idea is that a Sasaki-Einstein \(3\)-manifold \(S^3/\Gamma\) interpolates between two distinct singular Kähler manifolds: the \(4\)-orbifold \(C(S^3/\Gamma)\) and the corresponding \(2\)-orbifold coset of \(\mathbb {CP}^1\), allowing one to clarify the dynamical relations between the quiver bundles underlying the field theory for \(C(S^3/\Gamma)\) and the quiver bundles underlying the field theory for the corresponding coset of \(\mathbb {CP}^1\). The authors use Nahm equations to describe the moduli space of vacua of the quiver gauge theory associated to \(C(S^3/\Gamma )\) as spherically symmetric instantons over these cones and relate them to the Nakajima quiver varieties and to the moduli spaces of spherically symmetric solutions of hypothetical non-abelian generalizations of two imensional affine Toda field theories. Apparently the overall aim of these investigations is to understand better and generalize the recently discovered Alday-Gaiotto-Tachikawa relation between \(4\) dimensional gauge theories and \(2\) dimensional conformal field theories.