Ramification points of Seiberg-Witten curves

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2011)068MaRDI QIDQ467270zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Chan Y. Park

Publication date 3 November 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0288

zbMATH Keywords

differential and algebraic geometryduality in gauge field theoriesM-theorysupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topology of surfaces (Donaldson polynomials, Seiberg-Witten invariants) (14J80) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: When the Seiberg-Witten curve of a four-dimensional $mathcalN=2$ supersymmetric gauge theory wraps a Riemann surface as a multi-sheeted cover, a topological constraint requires that in general the curve should develop ramification points. We show that, while some of the branch points of the covering map can be identified with the punctures that appear in the work of Gaiotto, the ramification points give us additional branch points whose locations on the Riemann surface can have dependence not only on gauge coupling parameters but on Coulomb branch parameters and mass parameters of the theory. We describe how these branch points can help us to understand interesting physics in various limits of the parameters, including Argyres-Seiberg duality and Argyres-Douglas fixed points.

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