A Unified Geometric Framework for BPS Flows: Split Attractor, Hessian, and Spectral Networks
Abstract
We provide a systematic and rigorous geometric framework that relates three structures naturally associated to BPS central charges in supersymmetric gauge theories: the split attractor flow (SAF) of , the Hessian flow (HF) of , and the spectral network (SN) on the base curve of the Hitchin fibration. Our main contributions are: (i) a concise proof of orthogonality between SAF and gradient Hessian flow using only the Kahler structure; (ii) a precise lift-projection duality showing that the spectral network projects to the *characteristic Hessian flow* (the Hamiltonian flow of ) on the Hitchin base, clarifying a crucial distinction; (iii) a complete proof of the Kontsevich-Soibelman (KS) equivariance by induction on the SAF tree depth, with the geometric ordering provided by the characteristic Hessian flow. We illustrate the framework with detailed and nontrivial examples: pure and (including new BPS indices for higher flavour charges), pure (full BPS spectrum reconstruction), , the Kronecker -quiver, and we apply the induction to derive a closed-form BPS spectrum for the Argyres-Douglas theory, , which is a new result. In the tropical limit we obtain an explicit generating function for disk counts in gauge theories, , which follows directly from our recursion. These results demonstrate the computational power of the unified framework and provide new, verifiable predictions.
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@article{arxiv.2606.29190,
title = {A Unified Geometric Framework for BPS Flows: Split Attractor, Hessian, and Spectral Networks},
author = {Qiang Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.29190},
year = {2026}
}
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20 pages