Sasakian quiver gauge theories and instantons on Calabi-Yau cones

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2016.V20.N4.A4MaRDI QIDQ727679zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Olaf Lechtenfeld, Alexander D. Popov, Richard J. Szabo

Publication date 20 December 2016

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4409

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Representations of quivers and partially ordered sets (16G20) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Topology and geometry of orbifolds (57R18) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: We consider SU(2)-equivariant dimensional reduction of Yang-Mills theory on manifolds of the form $Mimes{S}^3/Gamma$, where $M$ is a smooth manifold and $S^3/Gamma$ is a three-dimensional Sasaki-Einstein orbifold. We obtain new quiver gauge theories on $M$ whose quiver bundles are based on the affine ADE Dynkin diagram associated to $Gamma$. We relate them to those arising through translationally-invariant dimensional reduction over the associated Calabi-Yau cones $C(S^3/Gamma)$ which are based on McKay quivers and ADHM matrix models, and to those arising through SU(2)-equivariant dimensional reduction over the leaf spaces of the characteristic foliations of $S^3/Gamma$ which are K"ahler orbifolds of $mathbbC{P}^1$ whose quiver bundles are based on the unextended Dynkin diagram corresponding to $Gamma$. We use Nahm equations to describe the vacua of SU(2)-equivariant quiver gauge theories on the cones as moduli spaces of spherically symmetric instantons. We relate them to the Nakajima quiver varieties which can be realized as Higgs branches of the worldvolume quiver gauge theories on D$p$-branes probing D$(p+4)$-branes which wrap an ALE space, and to the moduli spaces of spherically symmetric solutions in putative non-abelian generalizations of two-dimensional affine Toda field theories.

Review text

In this paper the authors introduce new quiver gauge theories which can be associated with Sasaki-Einstein manifolds \(S^3/\Gamma\) where \(\Gamma\) is a finite subgroup of \(\mathrm{SU}(2)\cong S^3\) with its standard metric. These new quiver gauge theories are put in comparison on the one hand with quiver gauge theories associated to Calabi-Yau cones \(C(S^3/\Gamma)\) (same as singular multi-Eguchi-Hanson or ALE Gibbons-Hawking spaces of all the \(ADE\)-types) and on the other hand with quiver gauge theories on the corresponding coset spaces of \(\mathbb {CP}^1\). The idea is that a Sasaki-Einstein \(3\)-manifold \(S^3/\Gamma\) interpolates between two distinct singular Kähler manifolds: the \(4\)-orbifold \(C(S^3/\Gamma)\) and the corresponding \(2\)-orbifold coset of \(\mathbb {CP}^1\), allowing one to clarify the dynamical relations between the quiver bundles underlying the field theory for \(C(S^3/\Gamma)\) and the quiver bundles underlying the field theory for the corresponding coset of \(\mathbb {CP}^1\). The authors use Nahm equations to describe the moduli space of vacua of the quiver gauge theory associated to \(C(S^3/\Gamma )\) as spherically symmetric instantons over these cones and relate them to the Nakajima quiver varieties and to the moduli spaces of spherically symmetric solutions of hypothetical non-abelian generalizations of two imensional affine Toda field theories. Apparently the overall aim of these investigations is to understand better and generalize the recently discovered Alday-Gaiotto-Tachikawa relation between \(4\) dimensional gauge theories and \(2\) dimensional conformal field theories.

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