Higher AGT correspondences, W-algebras, and higher quantum geometric Langlands duality from M-theory

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2018.V22.N2.A4zbMATH Open1401.83026arXiv1607.08330MaRDI QIDQ1800436FDOQ1800436

Meng-Chwan Tan

Publication date: 23 October 2018

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We further explore the implications of our framework in [arXiv:1301.1977, arXiv:1309.4775], and physically derive, from the principle that the spacetime BPS spectra of string-dual M-theory compactifications ought to be equivalent, (i) a 5d AGT correspondence for any compact Lie group, (ii) a 5d and 6d AGT correspondence on ALE space of type ADE, and (iii) identities between the ordinary, q-deformed and elliptic affine W-algebras associated with the 4d, 5d and 6d AGT correspondence, respectively, which also define a quantum geometric Langlands duality and its higher analogs formulated by Feigin-Frenkel-Reshetikhin in [3,4]. As an offshoot, we are led to the sought-after connection between the gauge-theoretic realization of the geometric Langlands correspondence by Kapustin-Witten [5,6] and its algebraic CFT formulation by Beilinson-Drinfeld [7], where one can also understand Wilson and 't Hooft-Hecke line operators in 4d gauge theory as monodromy loop operators in 2d CFT, for example. In turn, this will allow us to argue that the higher 5d/6d analog of the geometric Langlands correspondence for simply-laced Lie (Kac-Moody) groups G (G_k), ought to relate the quantization of circle (elliptic)-valued G Hitchin systems to circle/elliptic-valued ^LG (^LG_k)-bundles over a complex curve on one hand, and the transfer matrices of a G (G_k)-type XXZ/XYZ spin chain on the other, where ^LG is the Langlands dual of G. Incidentally, the latter relation also serves as an M-theoretic realization of Nekrasov-Pestun-Shatashvili's recent result in [8], which relates the moduli space of 5d/6d supersymmetric G (G_k)-quiver SU(K_i) gauge theories to the representation theory of quantum/elliptic affine (toroidal) G-algebras.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08330

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zbMATH Keywords

spin chainquiverKac-Moodyduality from M-theoryquantum geometric Langlands duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) 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) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Representations of quivers and partially ordered sets (16G20) Geometric Langlands program (algebro-geometric aspects) (14D24) Kac-Moody groups (20G44)

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