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These lecture notes cover a brief introduction into some of the algebro-geometric techniques used in the construction of BPS algebras. The first section introduces the derived category of coherent sheaves as a useful model of branes in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-30 Miroslav Rapcak

In previous works, we introduced and studied certain categories called quasi-BPS categories associated to symmetric quivers with potential, preprojective algebras, and local surfaces. They have properties reminiscent of BPS invariants/…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Tudor Pădurariu , Yukinobu Toda

We study the BPS spectra of N=2 complete quantum field theories in four dimensions. For examples that can be described by a pair of M5 branes on a punctured Riemann surface we explain how triangulations of the surface fix a BPS quiver and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-14 Murad Alim , Sergio Cecotti , Clay Cordova , Sam Espahbodi , Ashwin Rastogi , Cumrun Vafa

Motivated by the counting of BPS states in string theory with orientifolds, we study moduli spaces of self-dual representations of a quiver with contravariant involution. We develop Hall module techniques to compute the number of points…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-30 Matthew B. Young

The quiver Yangian, an infinite-dimensional algebra introduced recently in arXiv:2003.08909, is the algebra underlying BPS state counting problems for toric Calabi-Yau three-folds. We introduce trigonometric and elliptic analogues of quiver…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-08 Dmitry Galakhov , Wei Li , Masahito Yamazaki

We introduce affinizations and deformations of the BPS Lie algebra associated to a tripled quiver with potential, and use them to precisely determine the $T$-equivariant cohomological Hall algebra $\mathcal{H}_{\mathbb{A}^2}^T$ of compactly…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Ben Davison

We consider asymptotics of certain BPS state counts in M-theory compactified on a K3 surface. Our investigation is parallel to (and was inspired by) recent work in the mathematics literature by Filip, who studied the asymptotic count of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-16 Shamit Kachru , Arnav Tripathy , Max Zimet

In this paper we study the BPS state counting in the geometry of local obstructed curve with normal bundle O+O(-2). We find that the BPS states have a framed quiver description. Using this quiver description along with the Seiberg duality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-27 Wu-yen Chuang , Guang Pan

We determine the structure of the BPS algebra of 2-Calabi-Yau Abelian categories for which the stack of objects admits a good moduli space. We prove that this algebra is isomorphic to the positive part of the enveloping algebra of a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Ben Davison , Lucien Hennecart , Sebastian Schlegel Mejia

This paper concerns the cohomological aspects of Donaldson-Thomas theory for Jacobi algebras and the associated cohomological Hall algebra, introduced by Kontsevich and Soibelman. We prove the Hodge-theoretic categorification of the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Ben Davison , Sven Meinhardt

We relate the counting of refined BPS numbers on compact elliptically fibred Calabi-Yau threefolds $X$ to Wilson loop expectations values in the gauge theories that emerge in various rigid local limits of the 5d supergravity theory defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-16 Min-xin Huang , Sheldon Katz , Albrecht Klemm , Xin Wang

Motivated by the Weak Gravity Conjecture, we uncover an intricate interplay between black holes, BPS particle counting, and Calabi-Yau geometry in five dimensions. In particular, we point out that extremal BPS black holes exist only in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-19 Murad Alim , Ben Heidenreich , Tom Rudelius

We study the Coulomb branches of the rank-one 4d $\mathcal{N} = 2$ quantum field theories, including the KK theories obtained from the circle compactification of the 5d $\mathcal{N}= 1$ $E_n$ Seiberg theories. The focus is set on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-26 Horia Magureanu

We study BPS spectra of D-branes on local Calabi-Yau threefolds $\mathcal{O}(-p)\oplus\mathcal{O}(p-2)\to \mathbb{P}^1$ with $p=0,1$, corresponding to $\mathbb{C}^3/\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ and the resolved conifold. Nonabelianization for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Sibasish Banerjee , Pietro Longhi , Mauricio Romo

We study BPS states of 5d $\mathcal{N}=1$ $SU(2)$ Yang-Mills theory on $S^1\times \mathbb{R}^4$. Geometric engineering relates these to enumerative invariants for the local Hirzebruch surface $\mathbb{F}_0$. We illustrate computations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Sibasish Banerjee , Pietro Longhi , Mauricio Romo

We study the BPS spectrum and vacuum moduli spaces in dimensional reductions of Chern-Simons-matter theories with N>=2 supersymmetry to zero dimensions. Our main example is a matrix model version of the ABJM theory which we relate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-07 Joshua DeBellis , Richard J. Szabo

Recently an exact duality between topological string and the spectral theory of operators constructed from mirror curves to toric Calabi-Yau threefolds has been proposed. At the same time an exact quantization condition for the cluster…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-27 Alba Grassi , Jie Gu

We derive a $U$-duality invariant formula for the degeneracies of BPS multiplets in a D1-D5 system for toroidal compactification of the type II string. The elliptic genus for this system vanishes, but it is found that BPS states can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 Juan Maldacena , Gregory Moore , Andrew Strominger

The AdS/CFT correspondence between Sasaki-Einstein spaces and quiver gauge theories is studied from the perspective of massless BPS geodesics. The recently constructed toric Lpqr geometries are considered: we determine the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergio Benvenuti , Martin Kruczenski

In this work we explore the relation between orbifold singularities and higher form symmetries. Using the geometric engineering dictionary, we argue that the discrete higher symmetries of 5d SCFTs constructed from M-theory on a non-compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-24 Darius Dramburg , Shani Nadir Meynet , Andrea Sangiovanni