Self-dual quiver moduli and orientifold Donaldson-Thomas invariants

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2015.V9.N3.A1zbMATH Open1345.81108arXiv1408.4888MaRDI QIDQ889124FDOQ889124

Publication date: 6 November 2015

Published in: Communications in Number Theory and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by the counting of BPS states in string theory with orientifolds, we study moduli spaces of self-dual representations of a quiver with contravariant involution. We develop Hall module techniques to compute the number of points over finite fields of moduli stacks of semistable self-dual representations. Wall-crossing formulas relating these counts for different choices of stability parameters recover the wall-crossing of orientifold BPS/Donaldson-Thomas invariants predicted in the physics literature. In finite type examples the wall-crossing formulas can be reformulated in terms of identities for quantum dilogarithms acting in representations of quantum tori.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.4888

zbMATH Keywords

representations of quivers Donaldson-Thomas theory orientifolds categories with duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) 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) Representations of quivers and partially ordered sets (16G20)

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