Electric-magnetic duality and the geometric Langlands program

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2007.v1.n1.a1zbMath1128.22013arXivhep-th/0604151WikidataQ55885357 ScholiaQ55885357MaRDI QIDQ998211

Publication date: 28 August 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0604151

zbMATH Keywords

Yang-Mills theory gauge theory Riemann surface Hecke operators Wilson operator field theory electric-magnetic duality geometric Langlands program eigenbrane sigma-model t'Hooft operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Complex-analytic moduli problems (32G13) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21)

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