117 research outputs found
On Microscopic Origin of Integrability in Seiberg-Witten Theory
We discuss microscopic origin of integrability in Seiberg-Witten theory,
following mostly the results of hep-th/0612019, as well as present their
certain extension and consider several explicit examples. In particular, we
discuss in more detail the theory with the only switched on higher perturbation
in the ultraviolet, where extra explicit formulas are obtained using
bosonization and elliptic uniformization of the spectral curve.Comment: 24 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX, based on the talks at 'Geometry and
Integrability in Mathematical Physics', Moscow, May 2006; 'Quarks-2006',
Repino, May 2006; Twente conference on Lie groups, December 2006 and
'Classical and Quantum Integrable Models', Dubna, January 200
Matone's relation of N=2 super Yang-Mills and spectrum of Toda chain
In N=2 super Yang-Mills theory, the Matone's relation relates instanton
corrections of the prepotential to instanton corrections of scalar field
condensation . This relation has been proved to hold for Omega
deformed theories too, using localization method. In this paper, we first give
a case study supporting the relation, which does not rely on the localization
technique. Especially, we show that the magnetic expansion also satisfies a
relation of Matone's type. Then we discuss implication of the relation for the
spectrum of periodic Toda chain, in the context of recently proposed
Nekrasov-Shatashvili scheme.Comment: 17 pages; v2 minor changes, references added; v3 more material added
in 2nd section, clarification in 4th sectio
Magnetic expansion of Nekrasov theory: the SU(2) pure gauge theory
It is recently claimed by Nekrasov and Shatashvili that the
gauge theories in the background with
are related to the quantization of certain algebraic integrable systems. We
study the special case of SU(2) pure gauge theory, the corresponding integrable
model is the A Toda model, which reduces to the sine-Gordon quantum
mechanics problem. The quantum effects can be expressed as the WKB series
written analytically in terms of hypergeometric functions. We obtain the
magnetic and dyonic expansions of the Nekrasov theory by studying the property
of hypergeometric functions in the magnetic and dyonic regions on the moduli
space. We also discuss the relation between the electric-magnetic duality of
gauge theory and the action-action duality of the integrable system.Comment: 17 pages, submitted to PRD; v2, typos corrected, references added;
v3, published versio
Extended Seiberg-Witten Theory and Integrable Hierarchy
The prepotential of the effective N=2 super-Yang-Mills theory perturbed in
the ultraviolet by the descendents of the single-trace chiral operators is
shown to be a particular tau-function of the quasiclassical Toda hierarchy. In
the case of noncommutative U(1) theory (or U(N) theory with 2N-2 fundamental
hypermultiplets at the appropriate locus of the moduli space of vacua) or a
theory on a single fractional D3 brane at the ADE singularity the hierarchy is
the dispersionless Toda chain. We present its explicit solutions. Our results
generalize the limit shape analysis of Logan-Schepp and Vershik-Kerov, support
the prior work hep-th/0302191 which established the equivalence of these N=2
theories with the topological A string on CP^1 and clarify the origin of the
Eguchi-Yang matrix integral. In the higher rank case we find an appropriate
variant of the quasiclassical tau-function, show how the Seiberg-Witten curve
is deformed by Toda flows, and fix the contact term ambiguity.Comment: 49 page
Matrix Model and Stationary Problem in Toda Chain
We analyze the stationary problem for the Toda chain, and show that arising
geometric data exactly correspond to the multi-support solutions of one-matrix
model with a polynomial potential. For the first nontrivial examples the
Hamiltonians and symplectic forms are calculated explicitly, and the
consistency checks are performed. The corresponding quantum problem is
formulated and some its properties and perspectives are discussed.Comment: 11 pages, LaTeX; Based on talks at "Classical and quantum integrable
systems", Dubna, January 2005 and "Selected topics of modern mathematical
physics", St.Petersburg, June 2005, and a lecture for the minicourse: "Toda
lattices: basics and perspectives", Fields Institute, Toronto, April 200
Thermodynamic limit of random partitions and dispersionless Toda hierarchy
We study the thermodynamic limit of random partition models for the instanton
sum of 4D and 5D supersymmetric U(1) gauge theories deformed by some physical
observables. The physical observables correspond to external potentials in the
statistical model. The partition function is reformulated in terms of the
density function of Maya diagrams. The thermodynamic limit is governed by a
limit shape of Young diagrams associated with dominant terms in the partition
function. The limit shape is characterized by a variational problem, which is
further converted to a scalar-valued Riemann-Hilbert problem. This
Riemann-Hilbert problem is solved with the aid of a complex curve, which may be
thought of as the Seiberg-Witten curve of the deformed U(1) gauge theory. This
solution of the Riemann-Hilbert problem is identified with a special solution
of the dispersionless Toda hierarchy that satisfies a pair of generalized
string equations. The generalized string equations for the 5D gauge theory are
shown to be related to hidden symmetries of the statistical model. The
prepotential and the Seiberg-Witten differential are also considered.Comment: latex2e using amsmath,amssymb,amsthm packages, 55 pages, no figure;
(v2) typos correcte
Seiberg-Witten Theory and Extended Toda Hierarchy
The quasiclassical solution to the extended Toda chain hierarchy,
corresponding to the deformation of the simplest Seiberg-Witten theory by all
descendants of the dual topological string model, is constructed explicitly in
terms of the complex curve and generating differential. The first derivatives
of prepotential or quasiclassical tau-function over the extra times, extending
the Toda chain, are expressed through the multiple integrals of the
Seiberg-Witten one-form. We derive the corresponding quasiclassical Virasoro
constraints, discuss the functional formulation of the problem and propose
generalization of the extended Toda hierarchy to the nonabelian theory.Comment: 32 pages, LaTe
Second order reductions of the WDVV Equations related to classical Lie algebras
We construct second order reductions of the generalized
Witten-Dijkgraaf-Verlinde-Verlinde system based on simple Lie algebras. We
discuss to what extent some of the symmetries of the WDVV system are preserved
by the reduction.Comment: 6 pages, 1 tabl
On Combinatorial Expansions of Conformal Blocks
In a recent paper (arXiv:0906.3219) the representation of Nekrasov partition
function in terms of nontrivial two-dimensional conformal field theory has been
suggested. For non-vanishing value of the deformation parameter
\epsilon=\epsilon_1+\epsilon_2 the instanton partition function is identified
with a conformal block of Liouville theory with the central charge c = 1+
6\epsilon^2/\epsilon_1\epsilon_2. If reversed, this observation means that the
universal part of conformal blocks, which is the same for all two-dimensional
conformal theories with non-degenerate Virasoro representations, possesses a
non-trivial decomposition into sum over sets of the Young diagrams, different
from the natural decomposition studied in conformal field theory. We provide
some details about this intriguing new development in the simplest case of the
four-point correlation functions.Comment: 22 page
Nekrasov Functions and Exact Bohr-Sommerfeld Integrals
In the case of SU(2), associated by the AGT relation to the 2d Liouville
theory, the Seiberg-Witten prepotential is constructed from the Bohr-Sommerfeld
periods of 1d sine-Gordon model. If the same construction is literally applied
to monodromies of exact wave functions, the prepotential turns into the
one-parametric Nekrasov prepotential F(a,\epsilon_1) with the other epsilon
parameter vanishing, \epsilon_2=0, and \epsilon_1 playing the role of the
Planck constant in the sine-Gordon Shroedinger equation, \hbar=\epsilon_1. This
seems to be in accordance with the recent claim in arXiv:0908.4052 and poses a
problem of describing the full Nekrasov function as a seemingly straightforward
double-parametric quantization of sine-Gordon model. This also provides a new
link between the Liouville and sine-Gordon theories.Comment: 10 page
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