Twisted sheaves and SU(r) / Z_r Vafa-Witten theory

DOI10.1007/S00208-021-02303-6MaRDI QIDQ2134201zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yunfeng Jiang, Martijn Kool

Publication date 6 May 2022

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10368

zbMATH Keywords

partition functions\(S\)-dualityHiggs pairstwisted sheavesVafa-Witten theoryGieseker moduli spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) (K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28)

Abstract: The $mathrmSU(r)$ Vafa-Witten partition function, which virtually counts Higgs pairs on a projective surface $S$, was mathematically defined by Tanaka-Thomas. On the Langlands dual side, the first-named author recently introduced virtual counts of Higgs pairs on $m{u}_r$-gerbes. In this paper, we instead use Yoshioka's moduli spaces of twisted sheaves. Using Chern character twisted by rational $B$-field, we give a new mathematical definition of the $mathrmSU(r)/mathbb{Z}_r$ Vafa-Witten partition function when $r$ is prime. Our definition uses the period-index theorem of de Jong. $S$-duality, a concept from physics, predicts that the $mathrmSU(r)$ and $mathrmSU(r)/mathbb{Z}_r$ partitions functions are related by a modular transformation. We turn this into a mathematical conjecture, which we prove for all $K3$ surfaces and prime numbers $r$.

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