The rôle of Coulomb branches in 2D gauge theory

Publication date 15 December 2021

Abstract: I give a simple construction of certain Coulomb branches

C_{3, 4} (G; E)

of gauge theory in 3 and 4 dimensions defined by Nakajima et al. for a compact Lie group

G

and a polarisable quaternionic representation

E

. The manifolds

C (G; 0)

are abelian group schemes (over the bases of regular adjoint

G_{c}

-orbits, respectively conjugacy classes), and

C (G; E)

is glued together from two copies of

C (G; 0)

shifted by a rational Lagrangian section

v a r e p s i l o n_{V}

, the Euler class of the index bundle of a polarisation

V

of

E

. Extending the interpretation of

C_{3} (G; 0)

as "classifying space" for topological 2D gauge theories, I characterise functions on

C_{3} (G; E)

as operators on the equivariant quantum cohomologies of

M i m e s V

, for all compact symplectic

G

-manifolds

M

. The non-commutative version has an analogous description in terms of the

G a m m a

-function of

V

, appearing to play the role of Fourier transformed J-function of the gauged linear Sigma-model

V / G

.

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