Hitchin equation, singularity, and N = 2 superconformal field theories

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2010)043zbMATH Open1271.81114arXiv0911.1990MaRDI QIDQ365022FDOQ365022

Authors: Dan Xie, D. V. Nanopoulos 

Publication date: 3 September 2013

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

Abstract: We argue that Hitchin's equation determines not only the low energy effective theory but also describes the UV theory of four dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories when we compactify six dimensional $A_N$ $(0,2)$ theory on a punctured Riemann surface. We study the singular solution to Hitchin's equation and the Higgs field of solutions has a simple pole at the punctures; We show that the massless theory is associated with Higgs field whose residual is a nilpotent element; We identify the flavor symmetry associated with the puncture by studying the singularity of closure of the moduli space of solutions with the appropriate boundary conditions. For the mass-deformed theory the residual of the Higgs field is a semi-simple element, we identify the semi-simple element by arguing that the moduli space of solutions of mass-deformed theory must be a deformation of the closure of the moduli space of the massless theory. We also study the Seiberg-Witten curve by identifying it as the spectral curve of the Hitchin's system. The results are all in agreement with Gaiotto's results derived from studying the Seiberg-Witten curve of four dimensional quiver gauge theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1990

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zbMATH Keywords

M-theorybrane dynamics in gauge theoriessupersymmetric gauge theorysupersymmetry and duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Relationships between algebraic curves and physics (14H81) Topology of surfaces (Donaldson polynomials, Seiberg-Witten invariants) (14J80) Meromorphic functions of one complex variable (general theory) (30D30) 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)

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