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Coulomb branches for quaternionic representations

Algebraic Topology 2023-09-14 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

I describe the \emph{Chiral rings} R3,4R_{3,4} for 33D, N=4N=4 supersymmetric GG-gauge theory and matter fields in quaternionic representations EE: first, by a topological tweak of the construction of arxiv:1601.03586, and second, more explicitly, by Weyl group descent from the maximal torus. A topological obstruction is w4(E)w_4(E) modulo squares, for R3R_3; a secondary obstruction, from ηE\eta\cdot E, may appear for R4R_4. Flatness over the Toda bases allows their calculation by reduction to SU2\mathrm{SU}_2. For some representations, an Abelianization formula describes the RR in terms of the maximal torus and the Weyl group. This provides an alternative to a recent attempt arxiv:2201.09475.

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@article{arxiv.2209.01088,
  title  = {Coulomb branches for quaternionic representations},
  author = {Constantin Teleman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.01088},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

V.3 adds an explicit description in terms of the maximal torus and Weyl group.. V.2 corrected the topology result (secondary obstruction) and some calculations in the appendix, and added Edits and clarifications

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