N=2 quiver gauge theories on A-type ALE spaces

DOI10.1007/S11005-014-0734-XzbMATH Open1405.14031arXiv1410.2742OpenAlexW2952941332MaRDI QIDQ2017869FDOQ2017869

Authors: Francesco Sala, Richard J. Szabo, Ugo Bruzzo 

Publication date: 23 March 2015

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We survey and compare recent approaches to the computation of the partition functions and correlators of chiral BPS observables in $mathcalN=2$ gauge theories on ALE spaces based on quiver varieties and the minimal resolution $X_k$ of the $A_{k-1}$ toric singularity $mathbb{C}^2/mathbb{Z}_k$, in light of their recently conjectured duality with two-dimensional coset conformal field theories. We review and elucidate the rigorous constructions of gauge theories for a particular family of ALE spaces, using their relation to the cohomology of moduli spaces of framed torsion free sheaves on a suitable orbifold compactification of $X_k$. We extend these computations to generic $mathcalN=2$ superconformal quiver gauge theories, obtaining in these instances new constraints on fractional instanton charges, a rigorous proof of the Nekrasov master formula, and new quantizations of Hitchin systems based on the underlying Seiberg-Witten geometry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.2742

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zbMATH Keywords

stacksALE spacesframed sheavessupersymmetric gauge theoriespartition functionsblowup formulas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Topology of surfaces (Donaldson polynomials, Seiberg-Witten invariants) (14J80) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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