Line defect Schur indices, Verlinde algebras and U(1)_r fixed points

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2017)035MaRDI QIDQ1706845zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew Neitzke, Fei Yan

Publication date 28 March 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.05323

zbMATH Keywords

conformal and W symmetrydifferential and algebraic geometrysupersymmetric gauge theoryWilson, 't Hooft and Polyakov loops

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Lie algebras of linear algebraic groups (17B45)

Abstract: Given an $mathcalN=2$ superconformal field theory, we reconsider the Schur index $mathcal{I}_L(q)$ in the presence of a half line defect $L$. Recently Cordova-Gaiotto-Shao found that $mathcal{I}_L(q)$ admits an expansion in terms of characters of the chiral algebra $mathcalA$ introduced by Beem et al., with simple coefficients $$. We report a puzzling new feature of this expansion: the $qo1$ limit of the coefficients $$ is linearly related to the vacuum expectation values $langleLangle$ in $U(1{)}_r$-invariant vacua of the theory compactified on $S^1$. This relation can be expressed algebraically as a commutative diagram involving three algebras: the algebra generated by line defects, the algebra of functions on $U(1{)}_r$-invariant vacua, and a Verlinde-like algebra associated to $mathcalA$. Our evidence is experimental, by direct computation in the Argyres-Douglas theories of type $(A_1,A_2)$, $(A_1,A_4)$, $(A_1,A_6)$, $(A_1,D_3)$ and $(A_1,D_5)$. In the latter two theories, which have flavor symmetries, the Verlinde-like algebra which appears is a new deformation of algebras previously considered.

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