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Incidence Geometry in a Weyl Chamber II: $SL_n$

Representation Theory 2016-01-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Combinatorics

Abstract

We study the polyhedral geometry of the hyperplanes orthogonal to the weights of the first and the second fundamental representations of slnsl_n inside the dual fundamental Weyl chamber. We obtain generating functions that enumerate the flats and the faces of a fixed dimension. In addition, we describe the extreme rays of the incidence geometry and classify simplicial faces. From the perspective of supersymmetric gauge theories with 8 supercharges in five dimensional spacetime, the poset of flats is isomorphic to the network of mixed Coulomb-Higgs branches. On the other hand, the poset of faces is conjectured to be isomorphic to the network of crepant partial resolutions of an elliptic fibration with gauge algebra slnsl_n and "matter representation" given by the sum of the first two fundamental representations.

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@article{arxiv.1601.05070,
  title  = {Incidence Geometry in a Weyl Chamber II: $SL_n$},
  author = {Mboyo Esole and Steven Glenn Jackson and Ravi Jagadeesan and Alfred G. Noël},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.05070},
  year   = {2016}
}

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version 2, 30 pages+appendices and references, 15 figures, 3 tables, references added