English

Bands and gaps in Nekrasov partition function

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-04-13 v3

Abstract

We discuss the effective twisted superpotentials of 2d N=(2,2)\mathcal{N}=(2,2) theories arising upon the reduction of 4d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 gauge theories on the Ω\Omega-deformed cigar-like geometry. We explain field-theoretic origins of the gaps in the spectrum in the corresponding quantum mechanical (QM) systems. We find local 2d descriptions of the physics near these gaps by resumming the non-perturbative part of the twisted superpotential and discuss arising wall-crossing phenomena. The interpretation of the associated phenomena in the classical Liouville theory and in the scattering of two heavy states in AdS3AdS_3 gravity is suggested. Some comments concerning a possible interpretation of the band structure in QM in terms of the Schwinger monopole-pair production in 4d are presented.

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@article{arxiv.1712.02936,
  title  = {Bands and gaps in Nekrasov partition function},
  author = {A. Gorsky and A. Milekhin and N. Sopenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.02936},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

55 pages, 4 figures. v2: Minor corrections and references added. v3: Minor improvements

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