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Sphere quantization of Higgs and Coulomb branches and Analytic Symplectic Duality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-07-25 v1 Mathematical Physics Algebraic Geometry math.MP Quantum Algebra Representation Theory

Abstract

We employ the protected sphere correlation functions of three-dimensional Super Conformal Field Theories with eight supercharges in order to define a quantization of their Higgs and Coulomb branches of vacua as real phase spaces. We also employ hemisphere correlation functions to define a quantization of certain real loci in the Higgs and Coulomb branches. Localization formulae and dualities applied to these quantizations result in a body of predictions about unitary representations of certain algebras, which may perhaps be understood as an ``analytic'' form of the symplectic duality program. In particular, the protected correlation functions in the class of theories denoted as T[G]T[G] are naturally related to the theory of unitary representations of complex or real semi-simple Lie groups.

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@article{arxiv.2307.12396,
  title  = {Sphere quantization of Higgs and Coulomb branches and Analytic Symplectic Duality},
  author = {Davide Gaiotto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.12396},
  year   = {2023}
}

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