Defects, nested instantons and comet-shaped quivers

DOI10.1007/S11005-021-01366-5zbMATH Open1472.81236arXiv1907.02771OpenAlexW3136127411MaRDI QIDQ829946FDOQ829946

Authors: N. Fasola, Giulio Bonelli, Alessandro Tanzini 

Publication date: 7 May 2021

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce and study a surface defect in four dimensional gauge theories supporting nested instantons with respect to the parabolic reduction of the gauge group at the defect. This is engineered from a D3/D7-branes system on a non compact Calabi-Yau threefold $X$. For $X=T^{2}imes{T}^{*}{mathcalC}_{g,k}$, the product of a two torus $T^2$ times the cotangent bundle over a Riemann surface ${mathcalC}_{g,k}$ with marked points, we propose an effective theory in the limit of small volume of ${mathcalC}_{g,k}$ given as a comet shaped quiver gauge theory on $T^2$, the tail of the comet being made of a flag quiver for each marked point and the head describing the degrees of freedom due to the genus $g$. Mathematically, we obtain for a single D7-brane conjectural explicit formulae for the virtual equivariant elliptic genus of a certain bundle over the moduli space of the nested Hilbert scheme of points on the affine plane. A connection with elliptic cohomology of character varieties and an elliptic version of modified Macdonald polynomials naturally arises.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.02771

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zbMATH Keywords

quiverssurface defectsnested instantons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Representations of quivers and partially ordered sets (16G20)

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