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Irregular conformal block, spectral curve and flow equations

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-04-20 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Irregular conformal block is motivated by the Argyres-Douglas type of N=2 super conformal gauge theory. We investigate the classical/NS limit of the irregular conformal block using spectral curve on a Riemann surface with irregular punctures, which is equivalent to the loop equation of irregular matrix model. The spectral curve is reduced to the second order (Virasoro symmetry, SU(2)SU(2) for the gauge theory) and third order (W3W_3 symmetry, SU(3)SU(3)) differential equations of a polynomial with finite degree. The Virasoro and W symmetry generate flow equations in the spectral curve and determine the irregular conformal block, hence the partition function of the Argyres-Douglas theory ala AGT conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.1510.09060,
  title  = {Irregular conformal block, spectral curve and flow equations},
  author = {Sang Kwan Choi and Chaiho Rim and Hong Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.09060},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

35 pages; v2: 38 pages, section 4 and references added, minor changes

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