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RG flows with supersymmetry enhancement and geometric engineering
In this paper we study a class of SCFTs with ADE global
symmetry defined via Type IIB compactification on a class of hypersurfaces in
. These can also be constructed by
compactifying the 6d (2,0) theory of type ADE on a sphere with an irregular and
a full punctures. When we couple to the ADE moment map a chiral multiplet in
the adjoint representation and turn on a (principal) nilpotent vev for it, all
the theories in this family display enhancement of supersymmetry in the
infrared. We observe that all known examples of lagrangian theories which flow,
upon the same type of deformation, to strongly coupled theories
fit naturally in our framework, thus providing a new perspective on this topic.
We propose an infrared equivalence between this RG flow and a manifestly
preserving one and, as a byproduct, we extract a precise
prescription to relate the SW curves describing the UV and IR fixed points for
all theories with A or D global symmetry. We also find, for a certain subclass,
a simple relation between UV and IR theories at the level of chiral algebras.Comment: clarifications added, version published in JHE
Equivariant Verlinde formula from fivebranes and vortices
We study complex Chern-Simons theory on a Seifert manifold by embedding
it into string theory. We show that complex Chern-Simons theory on is
equivalent to a topologically twisted supersymmetric theory and its partition
function can be naturally regularized by turning on a mass parameter. We find
that the dimensional reduction of this theory to 2d gives the low energy
dynamics of vortices in four-dimensional gauge theory, the fact apparently
overlooked in the vortex literature. We also generalize the relations between
1) the Verlinde algebra, 2) quantum cohomology of the Grassmannian, 3)
Chern-Simons theory on and 4) index of a spin Dirac
operator on the moduli space of flat connections to a new set of relations
between 1) the "equivariant Verlinde algebra" for a complex group, 2) the
equivariant quantum K-theory of the vortex moduli space, 3) complex
Chern-Simons theory on and 4) the equivariant index of a
spin Dirac operator on the moduli space of Higgs bundles.Comment: 56 pages, 7 figures; v2: misprints corrected, clarifications added,
missing factors and terms restored in section 6.
Coarse-grained distributions and superstatistics
We show an interesting connexion between the coarse-grained distribution
function arising in the theory of violent relaxation for collisionless stellar
systems (Lynden-Bell 1967) and the notion of superstatistics introduced
recently by Beck & Cohen (2003). We also discuss the analogies and differences
between the statistical equilibrium state of a multi-components
self-gravitating system and the metaequilibrium state of a collisionless
stellar system. Finally, we stress the important distinction between mixing
entropies, generalized entropies, H-functions, generalized mixing entropies and
relative entropies
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