On the six-dimensional origin of the AGT correspondence

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2012)020MaRDI QIDQ2340666zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Junya Yagi

Publication date 20 April 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.0260

zbMATH Keywords

conformal and W symmetrysupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Formal methods and deformations in algebraic geometry (14D15) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: We argue that the six-dimensional (2,0) superconformal theory defined on M imes C, with M being a four-manifold and C a Riemann surface, can be twisted in a way that makes it topological on M and holomorphic on C. Assuming the existence of such a twisted theory, we show that its chiral algebra contains a W-algebra when M = R^4, possibly in the presence of a codimension-two defect operator supported on R^2 imes C subset M imes C. We expect this structure to survive the Omega-deformation.

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• The trouble with twisting (2,0) theory

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