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Tetrahedron Instantons on Orbifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-01-15 v3 Mathematical Physics Algebraic Geometry math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

Given a homomorphism τ\tau from a suitable finite group Γ\mathsf{\Gamma} to SU(4)\mathsf{SU}(4) with image Γτ\mathsf{\Gamma}^\tau, we construct a cohomological gauge theory on a noncommutative resolution of the quotient singularity C4/Γτ\mathbb{C}^4/\mathsf{\Gamma}^\tau whose BRST fixed points are Γ\mathsf{\Gamma}-invariant tetrahedron instantons on a generally non-effective orbifold. The partition function computes the expectation values of complex codimension one defect operators in rank rr cohomological Donaldson-Thomas theory on a flat gerbe over the quotient stack [C4/Γτ][\mathbb{C}^4/\,\mathsf{\Gamma}^\tau]. We describe the generalized ADHM parametrization of the tetrahedron instanton moduli space, and evaluate the orbifold partition functions through virtual torus localization. If Γ\mathsf{\Gamma} is an abelian group the partition function is expressed as a combinatorial series over arrays of Γ\mathsf{\Gamma}-coloured plane partitions, while if Γ\mathsf{\Gamma} is non-abelian the partition function localizes onto a sum over torus-invariant connected components of the moduli space labelled by lower-dimensional partitions. When Γ=Zn\mathsf{\Gamma}=\mathbb{Z}_n is a finite abelian subgroup of SL(2,C)\mathsf{SL}(2,\mathbb{C}), we exhibit the reduction of Donaldson-Thomas theory on the toric Calabi-Yau four-orbifold C2/Γ×C2\mathbb{C}^2/\,\mathsf{\Gamma}\times\mathbb{C}^2 to the cohomological field theory of tetrahedron instantons, from which we express the partition function as a closed infinite product formula. We also use the crepant resolution correpondence to derive a closed formula for the partition function on any polyhedral singularity.

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@article{arxiv.2405.14792,
  title  = {Tetrahedron Instantons on Orbifolds},
  author = {Richard J. Szabo and Michelangelo Tirelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.14792},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

80 pages; v2: minor changes and corrections; v3: new discussion section added; Final version to be published in Letters in Mathematical Physics

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