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Constructive Wall-Crossing and Seiberg-Witten

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-11 v1

Abstract

We outline a comprehensive and first-principle solution to the wall-crossing problem in D=4 N=2 Seiberg-Witten theories. We start with a brief review of the multi-centered nature of the typical BPS states and recall how the wall-crossing problem thus becomes really a bound state formation/dissociation problem. Low energy dynamics for arbitrary collections of dyons is derived, from Seiberg-Witten theory, with the proximity to the so-called marginal stability wall playing the role of the small expansion parameter. We find that, surprisingly, the R3n\mathbb{R}^{3n} low energy dynamics of n+1 BPS dyons cannot be consistently reduced to the classical moduli space, \CM\CM, yet the index can be phrased in terms of \CM\CM. We also explain how an equivariant version of this index computes the protected spin character of the underlying field theory, where SO(3)\CJSO(3)_\CJ isometry of \CM\CM turns out to be the diagonal subgroup of SU(2)LSU(2)_L spatial rotation and SU(2)RSU(2)_R R-symmetry. The so-called rational invariants, previously seen in the Kontsevich-Soibelman formalism of wall-crossing, are shown to emerge naturally from the orbifolding projection due to Bose/Fermi statistics.

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@article{arxiv.1209.1153,
  title  = {Constructive Wall-Crossing and Seiberg-Witten},
  author = {Piljin Yi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.1153},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

25 pages, conference proceeding contribution for "Progress of Quantum Field Theory and String Theory," Osaka, April 2012

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