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Expanding the Bethe/Gauge Dictionary

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-12-06 v1

Abstract

We expand the Bethe/Gauge dictionary between the XXX Heisenberg spin chain and 2d N = (2,2) supersymmetric gauge theories to include aspects of the algebraic Bethe ansatz. We construct the wave functions of off-shell Bethe states as orbifold defects in the A-twisted supersymmetric gauge theory and study their correlation functions. We also present an alternative description of off-shell Bethe states as boundary conditions in an effective N = 4 supersymmetric quantum mechanics. Finally, we interpret spin chain R-matrices as correlation functions of Janus interfaces for mass parameters in the supersymmetric quantum mechanics.

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@article{arxiv.1708.00445,
  title  = {Expanding the Bethe/Gauge Dictionary},
  author = {Mathew Bullimore and Hee-Cheol Kim and Tomasz Lukowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.00445},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

50 pages, 16 figures

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