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The quiver Yangians were originally defined for the quiver and superpotential from string theory on general toric Calabi-Yau threefolds, and serve as BPS algebras of these systems. Their characters reproduce the unrefined BPS indices, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-18 Wei Li

We find a direct relation between quiver representation theory and open topological string theory on a class of toric Calabi-Yau manifolds without compact four-cycles, also referred to as strip geometries. We show that various quantities…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-25 Miłosz Panfil , Piotr Sułkowski

We motivate and survey the theory of BPS invariants of categories and BPS cohomology of stacks, indicating applications in enumerative geometry and representation theory, as well as recent advances.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Ben Davison

We study the invariants of spin networks embedded in a three-dimensional manifold which are based on the path integral for SU(2) BF-Theory. These invariants appear naturally in Loop Quantum Gravity, and have been defined as spin-foam state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-23 João Faria Martins , Aleksandar Mikovic

We study the spectral properties of one-dimensional quantum wire with a single defect. We reveal the existence of the non-trivial topological structures in the spectral space of the system, which are behind the exotic quantum phenomena that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Taksu Cheon , Tamas Fulop , Izumi Tsutsui

We study symmetries of quantum field theories involving topologically distinct sectors of the field space. To exhibit these symmetries we define special gauge invariant observables, which we call the $qq$-characters. In the context of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Nikita Nekrasov

We apply reinforcement learning (RL) to establish whether at a given position in the Coulomb branch of the moduli space of a 4d $\mathcal{N} = 2$ quantum field theory (QFT) the BPS spectrum is finite. If it is, we furthermore determine the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-06 Federico Carta , Asa Gauntlett , Finley Griffin , Yang-Hui He

We introduce a class of new algebras, the shifted quiver Yangians, as the BPS algebras for type IIA string theory on general toric Calabi-Yau three-folds. We construct representations of the shifted quiver Yangian from general subcrystals…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-07 Dmitry Galakhov , Wei Li , Masahito Yamazaki

We count Higgs "phase" BPS states of general non-Abelian quiver, possibly with loops, by mapping the problem to its Abelian, or toric, counterpart and imposing Weyl invariance later. Precise Higgs index computation is particularly important…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Seung-Joo Lee , Zhao-Long Wang , Piljin Yi

We show how quiver representations and their invariant theory natu- rally arise in the study of some moduli spaces parametrizing bundles dened on an algebraic curve, and how they lead to ne results regarding the geometry of these spaces.

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2009-12-17 Olivier Serman

We propose defect lines as a useful tool to study bulk perturbations of conformal field theories, in particular to analyse the induced renormalisation group flows of boundary conditions. As a concrete example we investigate bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ilka Brunner , Daniel Roggenkamp

We revisit the algebraic description of shape invariance method in one-dimensional quantum mechanics. In this note we focus on four particular examples: the Kepler problem in flat space, the Kepler problem in spherical space, the Kepler…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-04 Satoshi Ohya

BPS invariants are computed, capturing topological invariants of moduli spaces of semi-stable sheaves on rational surfaces. For a suitable stability condition, it is proposed that the generating function of BPS invariants of a Hirzebruch…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 Jan Manschot

This paper provides both a detailed study of color-dependence of link homologies, as realized in physics as certain spaces of BPS states, and a broad study of the behavior of BPS states in general. We consider how the spectrum of BPS states…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-25 Sergei Gukov , Satoshi Nawata , Ingmar Saberi , Marko Stosic , Piotr Sułkowski

We discuss several aspects of D-brane moduli spaces and BPS spectra near orbifold points. We give a procedure to determine the decay products on a line of marginal stability, and we define the algebra of BPS states in terms of quivers.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Bartomeu Fiol , Marcos Marino

We establish a direct map between refined topological vertex and sl(N) homological invariants of the of Hopf link, which include Khovanov-Rozansky homology as a special case. This relation provides an exact answer for homological invariants…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Sergei Gukov , Amer Iqbal , Can Kozcaz , Cumrun Vafa

We consider the spectrum of BPS saturated states in $N = 2$ gauge theories in four dimensions. This spectrum may be discontinuous across real codimension one submanifolds of marginal stability in the moduli space of vacua. An example, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Henningson

We explore BPS quivers for D=5 theories, compactified on a circle and geometrically engineered over local Calabi-Yau 3-folds, for which many of known machineries leading to (refined) indices fail due to the fine-tuning of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Zhihao Duan , Dongwook Ghim , Piljin Yi

We study an Aganagic-Vafa brane supported on a special Lagrangian submanifold $\mathcal{L}$ in a non-compact toric Calabi-Yau threefold $\mathcal{X}$. From the perspective of geometric engineering, the Aganagic-Vafa branes give rise to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Sibasish Banerjee , Nafiz Ishtiaque , Saebyeok Jeong

In this note we review a construction of a BPS Hilbert space in an effective supersymmetric quiver theory with 4 supercharges. We argue abstractly that this space contains elements of an equivariant generalized cohomology theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-11 Dmitry Galakhov