Quantum geometry and -angle in five-dimensional super Yang-Mills

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2020)035MaRDI QIDQ1995078zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Nathan Haouzi

Publication date 18 February 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13565

zbMATH Keywords

't Hooft and Polyakov loopsWilson

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: Five-dimensional $Sp(N)$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills admits a $mathbb{Z}_2$ version of a theta angle $heta$. In this note, we derive a double quantization of the Seiberg-Witten geometry of $mathcalN=1$ $Sp(1)$ gauge theory at $heta=pi$, on the manifold $S^{1}imesmathbb{R}^4$. Crucially, $mathbb{R}^4$ is placed on the $Omega$-background, which provides the two parameters to quantize the geometry. Physically, we are counting instantons in the presence of a 1/2-BPS fundamental Wilson loop, both of which are wrapping $S^1$. Mathematically, this amounts to proving the regularity of a $qq$-character for the spin-1/2 representation of the quantum affine algebra $U_q(widehat{A}_1)$, with a certain twist due to the $heta$-angle. We motivate these results from two distinct string theory pictures. First, in a $(p,q)$-web setup in type IIB, where the loop is characterized by a D3 brane. Second, in a type I' string setup, where the loop is characterized by a D4 brane subject to an orientifold projection. We comment on the generalizations to the higher rank case $Sp(N)$ when $N>1$, and the $SU(N)$ theory at Chern-Simons level $kappa$ when $N>2$.

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