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A geometric recipe for twisted superpotentials

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-01-05 v2 Mathematical Physics Algebraic Geometry Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We give a pedagogical introduction to spectral networks and abelianization, as well as their relevance to N=2\mathcal{N}=2 supersymmetric field theories in four dimensions. Motivated by a conjecture of Nekrasov-Rosly-Shatashvili, we detail a geometric recipe for computing the effective twisted superpotential for N=2\mathcal{N}=2 field theories of class S\mathcal{S} as a generating function of the brane of opers, with respect to the spectral coordinates found from abelianization. We present two new examples, the simplest Argyres-Douglas theory and the pure SU(2)SU(2) gauge theory, while we conjecture the ϵ\epsilon-expansion of the effective twisted superpotential for the E6E_6 Minahan-Nemeschansky theory.

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@article{arxiv.2109.14699,
  title  = {A geometric recipe for twisted superpotentials},
  author = {Lotte Hollands and Philipp Rüter and Richard J. Szabo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.14699},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

102 pages, 42 figures; v2: references added

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