Symplectic duality and implosions

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2021.V25.N6.A1MaRDI QIDQ2149147zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Amihay Hanany, Frances Kirwan, Andrew Dancer

Publication date 28 June 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09620

zbMATH Keywords

hyper-Kähler implosionhyper-Kähler quiver diagramssymplectic dualitysymplectic implosion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of quivers and partially ordered sets (16G20) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05)

Abstract: We discuss symplectic and hyperk"ahler implosion and present candidates for the symplectic duals of the universal hyperk"ahler implosion for various groups.

Review text

This interesting article concerns examples of a conjectured duality between holomorphic symplectic varieties. This so-called symplectic duality has been suggested and studied by physicists. In their language, it is a duality between the Higgs branch and the Coulomb branch of a three-dimensional \(\mathcal N=4\) supersymmetric gauge theory. A comprehensive and rigorous mathematical framework to study this duality is not currently available, but some progress has been made, particularly by \textit{H. Nakajima} [Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 99, 193--211 (2018; Zbl 1471.22020)]. As a result, some of the mathematical properties of the conjectured duality are known. \par The authors consider a family of holomorphic symplectic varieties \(X_n\), \(n\in \mathbb N\), that are called (universal) \(\mathrm{SU}(n)\) hyper-Kähler implosions. The authors make a considerable effort to motivate and define them. For instance, it is explained that they are hyper-Kähler manifolds that arise from the hyper-Kähler quotient construction, i.e., \(X_n=M_n/\!\!/\!\!/ G_n\), where \(G_n\) is some compact group, and a description in terms of quiver diagrams is given. The main contribution of this article is a proposal (or conjecture) for the symplectic dual of \(X_n\). As evidence in favor of this proposal, a number of non-trivial checks are discussed; in particular, compatibility with certain conjectured properties formulated in [loc. cit.] is checked.

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