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Elliptic Quantum Curves of Class $\mathcal{S}_k$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-03-17 v1

Abstract

Quantum curves arise from Seiberg-Witten curves associated to 4d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 gauge theories by promoting coordinates to non-commutative operators. In this way the algebraic equation of the curve is interpreted as an operator equation where a Hamiltonian acts on a wave-function with zero eigenvalue. We find that this structure generalises when one considers torus-compactified 6d N=(1,0)\mathcal{N}=(1,0) SCFTs. The corresponding quantum curves are elliptic in nature and hence the associated eigenvectors/eigenvalues can be expressed in terms of Jacobi forms. In this paper we focus on the class of 6d SCFTs arising from M5 branes transverse to a C2/Zk\mathbb{C}^2/\mathbb{Z}_k singularity. In the limit where the compactified 2-torus has zero size, the corresponding 4d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 theories are known as class Sk\mathcal{S}_k. We explicitly show that the eigenvectors associated to the quantum curve are expectation values of codimension 2 surface operators, while the corresponding eigenvalues are codimension 4 Wilson surface expectation values.

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@article{arxiv.2008.05155,
  title  = {Elliptic Quantum Curves of Class $\mathcal{S}_k$},
  author = {Jin Chen and Babak Haghighat and Hee-Cheol Kim and Marcus Sperling},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.05155},
  year   = {2021}
}

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65 pages, 3 figures

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