q-nonabelianization for line defects

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2020)153MaRDI QIDQ1995170zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew Neitzke, Fei Yan

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/2002.08382

zbMATH Keywords

't Hooft and Polyakov loopsChern-Simons theoriesquantum groupssupersymmetric gauge theoryWilson

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We consider the $q$-nonabelianization map, which maps links $L$ in a 3-manifold $M$ to links $widetildeL$ in a branched $N$-fold cover $widetildeM$. In quantum field theory terms, $q$-nonabelianization is the UV-IR map relating two different sorts of defect: in the UV we have the six-dimensional $(2,0)$ superconformal field theory of type $mathfrakgl(N)$ on $Mimesmathbb{R}^{2,1}$, and we consider surface defects placed on $Limes{x}^4=x^5=0$; in the IR we have the $(2,0)$ theory of type $mathfrakgl(1)$ on $widetildeMimesmathbb{R}^{2,1}$, and put the defects on $widetildeLimes{x}^4=x^5=0$. In the case $M=mathbb{R}^3$, $q$-nonabelianization computes the Jones polynomial of a link, or its analogue associated to the group $U(N)$. In the case $M=CimesmathbbR$, when the projection of $L$ to $C$ is a simple non-contractible loop, $q$-nonabelianization computes the protected spin character for framed BPS states in 4d $mathcalN=2$ theories of class $S$. In the case $N=2$ and $M=CimesmathbbR$, we give a concrete construction of the $q$-nonabelianization map. The construction uses the data of the WKB foliations associated to a holomorphic covering $widetildeCoC$.

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