G₂ holonomy, Taubes' construction of Seiberg-Witten invariants and superconducting vortices

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2020)038zbMATH Open1436.81124arXiv1909.10453MaRDI QIDQ780679FDOQ780679

Authors: Sergio Cecotti, Chris Gerig, Cumrun Vafa 

Publication date: 15 July 2020

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

Abstract: Using a reformulation of topological $calN=2$ QFT's in M-theory setup, where QFT is realized via M5 branes wrapping co-associative cycles in a $G_2$ manifold constructed from the space of self-dual 2-forms over $X^4$, we show that superconducting vortices are mapped to M2 branes stretched between M5 branes. This setup provides a physical explanation of Taubes' construction of the Seiberg-Witten invariants when $X^4$ is symplectic and the superconducting vortices are realized as pseudo-holomorphic curves. This setup is general enough to realize topological QFT's arising from $calN=2$ QFT's from all Gaiotto theories on arbitrary 4-manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10453

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zbMATH Keywords

differential and algebraic geometrysupersymmetry and dualitytopological field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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