BPS states in the Minahan-Nemeschansky E₆ theory

DOI10.1007/S00220-016-2798-1MaRDI QIDQ529980zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lotte Hollands, Andrew Neitzke

Publication date 9 June 2017

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01743

zbMATH Keywords

BPS statescanonical surface defectCoulomb branchMinahan-Nemeschansky theorysecond helicity supertracespectral network

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Riemann surfaces (30F99) Spectral sets of linear operators (47A25) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We use the method of spectral networks to compute BPS state degeneracies in the Minahan-Nemeschansky $E_6$ theory, on its Coulomb branch, without turning on a mass deformation. The BPS multiplicities come out in representations of the $E_6$ flavor symmetry. For example, along the simplest ray in electromagnetic charge space, we give the first $14$ numerical degeneracies, and the first $7$ degeneracies as representations of $E_6$. We find a complicated spectrum, exhibiting exponential growth of multiplicities as a function of the electromagnetic charge. There is one unexpected outcome: the spectrum is consistent (in a nontrivial way) with the hypothesis of "spin purity," that if a BPS state in this theory has electromagnetic charge equal to $n$ times a primitive charge, then it appears in a spin-$fracn2$ multiplet.

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