Gauging Spacetime Symmetries on the Worldsheet and the Geometric Langlands Program

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2008/03/033arXiv0710.5796MaRDI QIDQ6207333FDOQ6207333

Publication date: 31 October 2007

Abstract: We study the two-dimensional twisted (0,2) sigma-model on various smooth complex flag manifolds G/B, and explore its relevance to the geometric Langlands program. We find that an equivalence - at the level of the holomorphic chiral algebra - between a bosonic string on G/B and a B-gauged version of itself on G, will imply an isomorphism of classical W-algebras and a level relation which underlie a geometric Langlands correspondence for G=SL(N,C). This furnishes an alternative physical interpretation of the geometric Langlands correspondence for G=SL(N,C), to that demonstrated earlier by Kapustin and Witten via an electric-magnetic duality of four-dimensional gauge theory. Likewise, the Hecke operators and Hecke eigensheaves will have an alternative physical interpretation in terms of the correlation functions of local operators in the holomorphic chiral algebra of a quasi-topological sigma-model without boundaries. A forthcoming paper will investigate the interpretation of a ``quantum geometric Langlands correspondence for G=SL(N,C) in a similar setting, albeit with fluxes of the sigma-model moduli which induce a ``quantum deformation of the relevant classical algebras turned on.

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