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

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2017)035zbMATH Open1383.81307arXiv1708.05323OpenAlexW3104432059MaRDI QIDQ1706845FDOQ1706845

Authors: Andrew Neitzke, Fei Yan 

Publication date: 28 March 2018

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

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.

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

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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)

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