Spectral networks

DOI10.1007/S00023-013-0239-7zbMATH Open1288.81132arXiv1204.4824OpenAlexW3037331373MaRDI QIDQ382233FDOQ382233

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

Publication date: 18 November 2013

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

Abstract: We introduce new geometric objects called spectral networks. Spectral networks are networks of trajectories on Riemann surfaces obeying certain local rules. Spectral networks arise naturally in four-dimensional N=2 theories coupled to surface defects, particularly the theories of class S. In these theories spectral networks provide a useful tool for the computation of BPS degeneracies: the network directly determines the degeneracies of solitons living on the surface defect, which in turn determine the degeneracies for particles living in the 4d bulk. Spectral networks also lead to a new map between flat GL(K,C) connections on a two-dimensional surface C and flat abelian connections on an appropriate branched cover Sigma of C. This construction produces natural coordinate systems on moduli spaces of flat GL(K,C) connections on C, which we conjecture are cluster coordinate systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4824

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Integration, integrals of Cauchy type, integral representations of analytic functions in the complex plane (30E20) Riemann surfaces (30F99) Spectral sets of linear operators (47A25) Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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