Seiberg-Witten geometry of four-dimensional N=2 quiver gauge theories

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2023.047arXiv1211.2240OpenAlexW4384470771MaRDI QIDQ6172017FDOQ6172017

Nikita Nekrasov, Vasily Pestun

Publication date: 16 August 2023

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Seiberg-Witten geometry of mass deformed N=2 superconformal ADE quiver gauge theories in four dimensions is determined. We solve the limit shape equations derived from the gauge theory and identify the space M of vacua of the theory with the moduli space of the genus zero holomorphic (quasi)maps to the moduli space of holomorphic G-bundles on a (possibly degenerate) elliptic curve defined in terms of the microscopic gauge couplings, for the corresponding simple ADE Lie group G. The integrable systems underlying, or, rather, overlooking the special geometry of M are identified. The moduli spaces of framed G-instantons on R^2xT^2, of G-monopoles with singularities on R^2xS^1, the Hitchin systems on curves with punctures, as well as various spin chains play an important role in our story. We also comment on the higher dimensional theories. In the companion paper the quantum integrable systems and their connections to the representation theory of quantum affine algebras will be discussed

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2240

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zbMATH Keywords

instantonsintegrabilitymonopoleslow-energy theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Effective quantum field theories (81T12)

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