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5D BPS Quivers and KK Towers

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-03-17 v2

Abstract

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 superpotential. For Abelian quivers, the counting reduces to a geometric one, but the technically challenging L2L^2 cohomology proved to be essential for sensible BPS spectra. We offer a mathematical theorem to remedy the difficulty, but for non-Abelian quivers, the cohomology approach itself fails because the relevant wavefunctions are inherently gauge-theoretical. For the Cartan part of gauge multiplets, which suffers no wall-crossing, we resort to the D0 picture and reconstruct entire KK towers. We also perform numerical checks using a multi-center Coulombic routine, with a simple hypothesis on the quiver invariants, and extend this to electric BPS states in the weak coupling chamber. We close with a comment on known Donaldson-Thomas invariants and on how L2L^2 index might be read off from these.

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@article{arxiv.2011.04661,
  title  = {5D BPS Quivers and KK Towers},
  author = {Zhihao Duan and Dongwook Ghim and Piljin Yi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.04661},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

49 pages, 11 figures, 1 table, more references added in ver.2

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