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Functoriality of Coulomb branches

Algebraic Geometry 2025-08-14 v3 Quantum Algebra Representation Theory

Abstract

We prove that the affine closure of the cotangent bundle of the parabolic base affine space for GLn\mathrm{GL}_n or SLn\mathrm{SL}_n is a Coulomb branch, which confirms a conjecture of Bourget-Dancer-Grimminger-Hanany-Zhong. In particular, we show that the algebra of functions on the cotangent bundle of the parabolic base affine space of GLn\mathrm{GL}_n or SLn\mathrm{SL}_n is finitely generated. We prove this by showing that, if we are given a map HGH \to G of complex reductive groups and a representation of GG satisfying an assumption we call gluable, then the Coulomb branch for the induced representation of HH is obtained from the corresponding Coulomb branch for GG by a certain Hamiltonian reduction procedure. In particular, we show that the Coulomb branch associated to any quiver with no loops can be obtained from Coulomb branches associated to quivers with exactly two vertices using this procedure.

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@article{arxiv.2501.09962,
  title  = {Functoriality of Coulomb branches},
  author = {Tom Gannon and Ben Webster},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.09962},
  year   = {2025}
}