Mirror Symmetry, Hitchin's Equations, And Langlands Duality

zbMath1298.81151arXiv0802.0999MaRDI QIDQ3078249

Edward Witten

Publication date: 18 February 2011

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0999

zbMATH Keywords

quantum field theorysigma modelHiggs bundlewild ramificationaffine braid grouptame ramificationgeometric Langlands programHitchin equationelectric-magnetic S-dualityhyper-Kähler moduli space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21)

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