REFINED BPS STATE COUNTING FROM NEKRASOV'S FORMULA AND MACDONALD FUNCTIONS

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DOI10.1142/S0217751X09043006zbMATH Open1170.81423arXiv0805.0191MaRDI QIDQ3397876FDOQ3397876


Authors: Hidetoshi Awata, Hiroaki Kanno Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 25 September 2009

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It has been argued that the Nekrasov's partition function gives the generating function of refined BPS state counting in the compactification of M theory on local Calabi-Yau spaces. We show that a refined version of the topological vertex we proposed before (hep-th/0502061) is a building block of the Nekrasov's partition function with two equivariant parameters. Compared with another refined topological vertex by Iqbal-Kozcaz-Vafa (hep-th/0701156), our refined vertex is expressed entirely in terms of the specialization of the Macdonald symmetric functions which is related to the equivariant character of the Hilbert scheme of points on C^2. We provide diagrammatic rules for computing the partition function from the web diagrams appearing in geometric engineering of Yang-Mills theory with eight supercharges. Our refined vertex has a simple transformation law under the flop operation of the diagram, which suggests that homological invariants of the Hopf link are related to the Macdonald functions.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.0191




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