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Extended Heun Hierarchy in Quantum Seiberg-Witten Geometry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-01-09 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We investigate the quantum geometry of the Seiberg-Witten curve for N=2\mathcal{N}=2, SU(2)n\mathrm{SU(2)}^n linear quiver gauge theories. By applying the Weyl quantization prescription to the algebraic curve, we derive the corresponding second-order differential equation and demonstrate that it is isomorphic to the Extended Heun Equation with n+3n+3 regular singular points. The physical parameters of the gauge theory are linked to the canonical coefficients of the Heun equation via a polynomial representation of the Seiberg-Witten curve. This framework provides the necessary mathematical foundation to apply non-perturbative gauge-theoretic techniques, such as instanton counting, to spectral problems in gravitational physics, most notably for higher-dimensional black holes.

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@article{arxiv.2601.05204,
  title  = {Extended Heun Hierarchy in Quantum Seiberg-Witten Geometry},
  author = {Peng Yang and Yi-Rong Wang and Kilar Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.05204},
  year   = {2026}
}

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20 pages, 1 figure

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