62 research outputs found
Twisted Masses and Enhanced Symmetries: the A&D Series
We study new symmetries between A and D type quiver gauge theories with
different numbers of colors. We realize these gauge theories with twisted
masses via a brane construction that reproduces all the parameters of the
Gauge/Bethe correspondence.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figure
Relating Gauge Theories via Gauge/Bethe Correspondence
In this note, we use techniques from integrable systems to study relations
between gauge theories. The Gauge/Bethe correspondence, introduced by Nekrasov
and Shatashvili, identifies the supersymmetric ground states of an N=(2,2)
supersymmetric gauge theory in two dimensions with the Bethe states of a
quantum integrable system. We make use of this correspondence to relate three
different quiver gauge theories which correspond to three different
formulations of the Bethe equations of an integrable spin chain called the tJ
model.Comment: 30 pages, published in JHEP. LaTeX problem correcte
N=4 Superconformal Algebra and the Entropy of HyperKahler Manifolds
We study the elliptic genera of hyperKahler manifolds using the
representation theory of N=4 superconformal algebra. We consider the
decomposition of the elliptic genera in terms of N=4 irreducible characters,
and derive the rate of increase of the multiplicities of half-BPS
representations making use of Rademacher expansion. Exponential increase of the
multiplicity suggests that we can associate the notion of an entropy to the
geometry of hyperKahler manifolds. In the case of symmetric products of K3
surfaces our entropy agrees with the black hole entropy of D5-D1 system.Comment: 25 pages, 1 figur
Quantum Sine(h)-Gordon Model and Classical Integrable Equations
We study a family of classical solutions of modified sinh-Gordon equation,
$\partial_z\partial_{{\bar z}} \eta-\re^{2\eta}+p(z)\,p({\bar z})\
\re^{-2\eta}=0p(z)=z^{2\alpha}-s^{2\alpha}Q(\alpha>0)(\alpha<-1)$ models.Comment: 35 pages, 3 figure
Integrability and the conformal field theory of the Higgs branch
In the context of the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence, we investigate the Higgs branch CFT2. Witten showed that states localised near the small instanton singularity can be described in terms of vector multiplet variables. This theory has a planar, weak-coupling limit, in which anomalous dimensions of single-trace composite operators can be calculated. At one loop, the calculation reduces to finding the spectrum of a spin-chain with nearest-neighbour interactions. This CFT2 spin-chain matches precisely the one that was previously found as the weak-coupling limit of the integrable system describing the AdS3 side of the duality. We compute the one-loop dilatation operator in a non-trivial compact subsector and show that it corresponds to an integrable spin-chain Hamiltonian. This provides the first direct evidence of integrability on the CFT2 side of the correspondence
Pointed Hopf Algebras with Triangular Decomposition: A Characterization of Multiparameter Quantum Groups
© 2016, The Author(s). In this paper, we present an approach to the definition of multiparameter quantum groups by studying Hopf algebras with triangular decomposition. Classifying all of these Hopf algebras which are of what we call weakly separable type over a group, we obtain a class of pointed Hopf algebras which can be viewed as natural generalizations of multiparameter deformations of universal enveloping algebras of Lie algebras. These Hopf algebras are instances of a new version of braided Drinfeld doubles, which we call asymmetric braided Drinfeld doubles. This is a generalization of an earlier result by Benkart and Witherspoon (Algebr. Represent. Theory 7(3) ? BC) who showed that two-parameter quantum groups are Drinfeld doubles. It is possible to recover a Lie algebra from these doubles in the case where the group is free abelian and the parameters are generic. The Lie algebras arising are generated by Lie subalgebras isomorphic to sl2
Introduction to Khovanov Homologies. I. Unreduced Jones superpolynomial
An elementary introduction to Khovanov construction of superpolynomials.
Despite its technical complexity, this method remains the only source of a
definition of superpolynomials from the first principles and therefore is
important for development and testing of alternative approaches. In this first
part of the review series we concentrate on the most transparent and
unambiguous part of the story: the unreduced Jones superpolynomials in the
fundamental representation and consider the 2-strand braids as the main
example. Already for the 5_1 knot the unreduced superpolynomial contains more
items than the ordinary Jones.Comment: 33 page
Quantum Symmetries and Marginal Deformations
We study the symmetries of the N=1 exactly marginal deformations of N=4 Super
Yang-Mills theory. For generic values of the parameters, these deformations are
known to break the SU(3) part of the R-symmetry group down to a discrete
subgroup. However, a closer look from the perspective of quantum groups reveals
that the Lagrangian is in fact invariant under a certain Hopf algebra which is
a non-standard quantum deformation of the algebra of functions on SU(3). Our
discussion is motivated by the desire to better understand why these theories
have significant differences from N=4 SYM regarding the planar integrability
(or rather lack thereof) of the spin chains encoding their spectrum. However,
our construction works at the level of the classical Lagrangian, without
relying on the language of spin chains. Our approach might eventually provide a
better understanding of the finiteness properties of these theories as well as
help in the construction of their AdS/CFT duals.Comment: 1+40 pages. v2: minor clarifications and references added. v3: Added
an appendix, fixed minor typo
HOMFLY and superpolynomials for figure eight knot in all symmetric and antisymmetric representations
Explicit answer is given for the HOMFLY polynomial of the figure eight knot
in arbitrary symmetric representation R=[p]. It generalizes the old
answers for p=1 and 2 and the recently derived results for p=3,4, which are
fully consistent with the Ooguri-Vafa conjecture. The answer can be considered
as a quantization of the \sigma_R = \sigma_{[1]}^{|R|} identity for the
"special" polynomials (they define the leading asymptotics of HOMFLY at q=1),
and arises in a form, convenient for comparison with the representation of the
Jones polynomials as sums of dilogarithm ratios. In particular, we construct a
difference equation ("non-commutative A-polynomial") in the representation
variable p. Simple symmetry transformation provides also a formula for
arbitrary antisymmetric (fundamental) representation R=[1^p], which also passes
some obvious checks. Also straightforward is a deformation from HOMFLY to
superpolynomials. Further generalizations seem possible to arbitrary Young
diagrams R, but these expressions are harder to test because of the lack of
alternative results, even partial.Comment: 14 page
Conformal algebra: R-matrix and star-triangle relation
The main purpose of this paper is the construction of the R-operator which
acts in the tensor product of two infinite-dimensional representations of the
conformal algebra and solves Yang-Baxter equation. We build the R-operator as a
product of more elementary operators S_1, S_2 and S_3. Operators S_1 and S_3
are identified with intertwining operators of two irreducible representations
of the conformal algebra and the operator S_2 is obtained from the intertwining
operators S_1 and S_3 by a certain duality transformation. There are
star-triangle relations for the basic building blocks S_1, S_2 and S_3 which
produce all other relations for the general R-operators. In the case of the
conformal algebra of n-dimensional Euclidean space we construct the R-operator
for the scalar (spin part is equal to zero) representations and prove that the
star-triangle relation is a well known star-triangle relation for propagators
of scalar fields. In the special case of the conformal algebra of the
4-dimensional Euclidean space, the R-operator is obtained for more general
class of infinite-dimensional (differential) representations with nontrivial
spin parts. As a result, for the case of the 4-dimensional Euclidean space, we
generalize the scalar star-triangle relation to the most general star-triangle
relation for the propagators of particles with arbitrary spins.Comment: Added references and corrected typo
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