Bands and gaps in Nekrasov partition function
Abstract
We discuss the effective twisted superpotentials of 2d theories arising upon the reduction of 4d gauge theories on the -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 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