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Monopole bubbling contributions to supersymmetric 't Hooft loops in 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories are computed by SQM indices. As recently argued, those indices are hard to compute due to the presence of Coulomb vacua that are not captured by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Benjamin Assel , Antonio Sciarappa

I give a simple construction of certain Coulomb branches $C_{3,4}(G;E)$ of gauge theory in 3 and 4 dimensions defined by Nakajima et al. for a compact Lie group $G$ and a polarisable quaternionic representation $E$. The manifolds $C(G; 0)$…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Constantin Teleman

The Coulomb branch of 3-dimensional N=4 gauge theories is the space of bare and dressed BPS monopole operators. We utilise the conformal dimension to define a fan which, upon intersection with the weight lattice of a GNO-dual group, gives…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Amihay Hanany , Marcus Sperling

For a noncommutative algebra $\mathcal{A}$ and an antilinear automorphism $\rho$ of $\mathcal{A}$, there is a notion of a positive trace. When we have a three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ gauge theory or four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Daniil Klyuev , Joseph Vulakh

The Higgs branch of minimally supersymmetric five dimensional SQCD theories increases in a significant way at the UV fixed point when the inverse gauge coupling is tuned to zero. It has been a long standing problem to figure out how, and to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Giulia Ferlito , Amihay Hanany , Noppadol Mekareeya , Gabi Zafrir

This paper addresses a long standing problem - to identify the chiral ring and moduli space (i.e. as an algebraic variety) on the Coulomb branch of an N = 4 superconformal field theory in 2+1 dimensions. Previous techniques involved a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-14 Stefano Cremonesi , Amihay Hanany , Alberto Zaffaroni

We study the Coulomb branches of $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ quiver gauge theories, focusing on the generators for their quantized coordinate rings. We show that there is a surjective map from a shifted Yangian onto the quantized Coulomb branch,…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Alex Weekes

In recent work, we demonstrated that a spectral variety for the Berry connection of a 2d $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ GLSM with K\"ahler vacuum moduli space $X$ and abelian flavour symmetry is the support of a sheaf induced by a certain action on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-05 Andrea E. V. Ferrari , Daniel Zhang

We analyze the coulomb branch of the non-unitary Lorentzian three algebra theory that has been proposed as a possible candidate for describing the world volume theory of multiple M2-branes. In order that it describes the theory of multiple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-06-16 Sergio Cecotti , Ashoke Sen

We use brane techniques to study the space of vacua of abelian 3d $\mathcal{N}=3$ gauge theories. The coordinates on these spaces are the vevs of chiral monopole and meson operators, which are realized in the type IIB brane configuration of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Benjamin Assel

We generalize the mathematical definition of Coulomb branches of $3$-dimensional $\mathcal N=4$ SUSY quiver gauge theories in arXiv:1503.03676, arXiv:1601.03686, arXiv:1604.03625 to the cases with symmetrizers. We obtain generalized affine…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Hiraku Nakajima , Alex Weekes

According to the proposal of Hanany and Witten, Coulomb branches of N=4 SU(n) gauge theories in three dimensions are isometric to moduli spaces of BPS monopoles. We generalize this proposal to gauge theories with matter, which allows us to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Sergey A. Cherkis , Anton Kapustin

We present an algorithm to extract the Coulomb branch Hasse diagram of orthosymplectic 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ quiver gauge theories. The algorithm systematically predicts all descendant theories arising from Coulomb branch Higgsing, thereby…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-20 Craig Lawrie , Lorenzo Mansi , Marcus Sperling , Zhenghao Zhong

Let $A=A_{G,N}^{\hbar=1}$ be a quantized Coulomb branch with an antilinear automorphism $\rho$. A map $T\colon A\to\mathbb{C}$ is called a positive trace if $T(a\rho(a))>0$ for all nonzero $a\in A$. Positive traces on Coulomb branches…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Daniil Klyuev

We study monopole operators at the infrared fixed points of Abelian and non-Abelian gauge theories with N_f fermion flavors in three dimensions. At large N_f, independent monopole operators can be defined via the state-operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-06 Ethan Dyer , Márk Mezei , Silviu S. Pufu

We study some topological aspects of non-abelian gauge theories intimately connected to the Lie algebras of the gauge groups and the homotopy theory in the generalized gauge orbit space. The physics connection to the non-perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Huazhong Zhang

We present a new family of dualities for three-dimensional gauge theories, motivated by the brane realization of the reduction of four-dimensional dualities on a circle. This family can be understood as a generalization of Aharony duality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Antonio Amariti , Domenico Orlando , Susanne Reffert

Quiver quantum mechanics describes the low energy dynamics of a system of wrapped D-branes. It captures several aspects of single and multicentered BPS black hole geometries in four-dimensional $\mathcal{N} = 2$ supergravity such as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-30 Dionysios Anninos , Tarek Anous , Paul de Lange , George Konstantinidis

These are (somewhat informal) lectures notes for the CIME summer school "Geometric Representation Theory and Gauge Theory" in June 2018. In these notes we review the results and constructions of a series of our joint papers with H.Nakajima…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-05 Alexander Braverman , Michael Finkelberg

This is a companion paper of arXiv:1601.03586. We study Coulomb branches of unframed and framed quiver gauge theories of type $ADE$. In the unframed case they are isomorphic to the moduli space of based rational maps from ${\mathbb C}P^1$…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-31 Alexander Braverman , Michael Finkelberg , Hiraku Nakajima