Spectral networks and snakes

DOI10.1007/S00023-013-0238-8MaRDI QIDQ2442695zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Davide Gaiotto, G. W. Moore, Andrew Neitzke

Publication date 1 April 2014

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.0866

zbMATH Keywords

BPS degeneraciesframed BPS statessnake of a vector spacespectral networkssupersymmetric QFTTeichmüller theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We apply and illustrate the techniques of spectral networks in a large collection of A_{K-1} theories of class S, which we call "lifted A_1 theories." Our construction makes contact with Fock and Goncharov's work on higher Teichmuller theory. In particular we show that the Darboux coordinates on moduli spaces of flat connections which come from certain special spectral networks coincide with the Fock-Goncharov coordinates. We show, moreover, how these techniques can be used to study the BPS spectra of lifted A_1 theories. In particular, we determine the spectrum generators for all the lifts of a simple superconformal field theory.

Review text

This paper continues the analysis of geometric objects called spectral networks in [Ann. Henri Poincaré 14, No. 7, 1643--1731 (2013; Zbl 1288.81132)] and of framed BPS states in [Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 17, No. 2, 241--397 (2013; Zbl 1290.81146)] by the same authors, while Fock and Goncharov introduced the notion of a snake associated to a vector space in \(V\) as an oriented edge path of an triangle of lines in \(V\). Though spectral networks seem to be widely unknown and very unfamiliar objects, the related subject of supersymmetric 4-dimensional quantum field theory is a common subject of many recent articles. By now, there are many new insights into the spectrum of BPS states. One of the virtues of spectral networks is that they provide an approach to a description of BPS degeneracies. They also provide mathematical applications to the theory of character varieties, moduli spaces of local systems and higher Teichmüller theory, and so the purpose of the present paper is to ``apply and illustrate the techniques of spectral networks.

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