D=3 N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in nLab
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Idea
The special case of super Yang-Mills theory over a spacetime of dimension 3 and with number of supersymmetries.
Properties
Coulomb- and Higgs-branches
Both the Coulomb branches and the Higgs branch of D=3 N=4 super Yang-Mills theory are hyperkähler manifolds. In special cases they are compact hyperkähler manifolds (e.g. dBHOO 96).
Reduction from ,
The , SYM theory can be obtained by dimensional reduction from N=2 D=4 super Yang-Mills theory (Seiberg-Witten 96)
Mirror symmetry
A version of mirror symmetry acts on the , SYM moduli space of vacua and exchanges the Coulomb branch with the Higgs branch. (Intriligator-Seiberg 96)
See also the discussion at symplectic duality.
Topological twist and Rozansky-Witten theory
A topological twist of D=3 N=4 super Yang-Mills theory is Rozansky-Witten theory.
References
General
The construction of D=3 N=4 super Yang-Mills theory by dimensional reduction from N=2 D=4 super Yang-Mills theory was first considered in
- Nathan Seiberg, Edward Witten, Gauge Dynamics And Compactification To Three Dimensions, In: J.M. Drouffe, J.B. Zuber (eds.) The mathematical beauty of physics: A memorial volume for Claude Itzykson Proceedings, Conference, Saclay, France, June 5-7, 1996 (arXiv:hep-th/9607163, spire:420925)
Discussion as the worldvolume-theory of D3-D5 brane intersections:
- Amihay Hanany, Edward Witten, Type IIB Superstrings, BPS Monopoles, And Three-Dimensional Gauge Dynamics, Nucl. Phys. B492:152-190, 1997 (arXiv:hep-th/9611230)
Review of the moduli space of vacua:
- Federici Carta, Moduli Spaces of , Quiver Gauge Theories and Mirror Symmetry, (tesi.cab.unipd.it/46485/)
Via KK-compactification from little string theory:
- Antonio Amariti, Gianmarco Formigoni, A note on from little string theory (arXiv:2003.05983)
and from heterotic string theory on ADE-singularities:
- Michele Del Zotto, Marco Fazzi, Suvendu Giri, A new vista on the Heterotic Moduli Space from Six and Three Dimensions [arXiv:2307.10356]
See also:
- Mikhail Evtikhiev, SCFTs in 4 dimensions and non-simply laced groups (arXiv:2004.03919)
Mirror symmetry for SYM
On mirror symmetry for D=3 N=4 super Yang-Mills theory
The mirror symmetry operation was discussed in
- Ken Intriligator, Nathan Seiberg, Mirror Symmetry in Three Dimensional Gauge Theories, Phys. Lett.B 387 : 513-519,1996 (arXiv:hep-th/9607207)
Discussion with emphasis of Higgs branches/Coulomb branches as Hilbert schemes of points
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Jan de Boer, Kentaro Hori, Hirosi Ooguri, Yaron Oz, Mirror Symmetry in Three-Dimensional Gauge Theories, Quivers and D-branes, Nucl. Phys. B493:101-147, 1997 (arXiv:hep-th/9611063)
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Jan de Boer, Kentaro Hori, Hirosi Ooguri, Yaron Oz, Zheng Yin, Mirror Symmetry in Three-Dimensional Gauge Theories, and D-Brane Moduli Spaces, Nucl. Phys. B493:148-176, 1997 (arXiv:hep-th/9612131)
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Mathew Bullimore, Andrea Ferrari, Heeyeon Kim, Supersymmetric Ground States of 3d Gauge Theories on a Riemann Surface (arXiv:2105.08783)
Lift to M-theory
Lift to M-theory:
- M. Porrati, Alberto Zaffaroni, M-Theory Origin of Mirror Symmetry in Three Dimensional Gauge Theories, Nucl. Phys. B490 (1997) 107-120 (arXiv:hep-th/9611201)
Coulomb branch and monopole moduli
Review of Coulomb branches of D=3 N=4 super Yang-Mills theory:
- Marcus Sperling, chapter III of: Two aspects of gauge theories : higher-dimensional instantons on cones over Sasaki-Einstein spaces and Coulomb branches for 3-dimensional gauge theories (spire:1495766/, pdf, pdf)
Identification of the Coulomb branch of D=3 N=4 super Yang-Mills theory with the moduli space of monopoles in Yang-Mills theory:
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N. Dorey, V. V. Khoze, M. P. Mattis, David Tong, S. Vandoren, Instantons, Three-Dimensional Gauge Theory, and the Atiyah-Hitchin Manifold, Nucl. Phys. B502 (1997) 59-93 (arXiv:hep-th/9703228)
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David Tong, Three-Dimensional Gauge Theories and ADE Monopoles, Phys. Lett. B448 (1999) 33-36 (arXiv:hep-th/9803148)
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Mathew Bullimore, Tudor Dimofte, Davide Gaiotto, The Coulomb Branch of 3d Theories, Commun. Math. Phys. (2017) 354: 671 (arXiv:1503.04817)
On D=3 N=4 super Yang-Mills theories with compact hyperkähler manifold Coulomb branches obtained by KK-compactification of little string theories:
- Kenneth Intriligator, Compactified Little String Theories and Compact Moduli Spaces of Vacua, Phys. Rev. D61:106005, 2000 (arXiv:hep-th/9909219)
The Rozansky-Witten invariants of these moduli spaces:
- Lev Rozansky, Edward Witten, p. 36 of: Hyper-Kähler geometry and invariants of 3-manifolds, Selecta Math., New Ser. 3 (1997), 401–458 (arXiv:hep-th/9612216, doi:10.1007/s000290050016, MR98m:57041)
On a mathematical definition of quantum Coulomb branches of D=3 N=4 super Yang-Mills theory:
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Hiraku Nakajima, Introduction to a provisional mathematical definition of Coulomb branches of 3-dimensional gauge theories (arXiv:1706.05154)
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Hiraku Nakajima, Towards a mathematical definition of Coulomb branches of 3-dimensional gauge theories, I (arXiv:1503.03676)
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Alexander Braverman, Michael Finkelberg, Hiraku Nakajima, Towards a mathematical definition of Coulomb branches of 3-dimensional gauge theories, II, Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 22 (2018) 1071-1147 (arXiv:1601.03586)
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Alexander Braverman, Michael Finkelberg, Hiraku Nakajima, Line bundles over Coulomb branches (arXiv:1805.11826)
(relation to Hilbert schemes)
Hilbert schemes and Higgs/Coulomb branches
Identification of Higgs branches/Coulomb branches in D=3 N=4 super Yang-Mills theory with Hilbert schemes of points of complex curves:
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Jan de Boer, Kentaro Hori, Hirosi Ooguri, Yaron Oz, Mirror Symmetry in Three-Dimensional Gauge Theories, Quivers and D-branes, Nucl. Phys. B493:101-147, 1997 (arXiv:hep-th/9611063)
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Jan de Boer, Kentaro Hori, Hirosi Ooguri, Yaron Oz, Zheng Yin, Mirror Symmetry in Three-Dimensional Gauge Theories, and D-Brane Moduli Spaces, Nucl. Phys. B493:148-176, 1997 (arXiv:hep-th/9612131)
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Stefano Cremonesi, Amihay Hanany, Alberto Zaffaroni, around (4.4) of: Monopole operators and Hilbert series of Coulomb branches of 3d gauge theories, JHEP 01 (2014) 005 (arXiv:1309.2657)
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Alexander Braverman, Michael Finkelberg, Hiraku Nakajima, Line bundles over Coulomb branches (arXiv:1805.11826)
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Mykola Dedushenko, Yale Fan, Silviu Pufu, Ran Yacoby, Section E.2 of: Coulomb Branch Quantization and Abelianized Monopole Bubbling, JHEP 10 (2019) 179 (arXiv:1812.08788)
Witten index
Discussion of the Witten index of D=3 N=4 super Yang-Mills theory:
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Mathew Bullimore, Andrea E.V. Ferrari, Heeyeon Kim, Twisted Indices of 3d N=4 Gauge Theories and Enumerative Geometry of Quasi-Maps (arXiv:1812.05567)
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Davide Gaiotto, Tadashi Okazaki, Sphere correlation functions and Verma modules (arXiv:1911.11126)
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Mathew Bullimore, Samuel Crew, Daniel Zhang, Boundaries, Vermas, and Factorisation (arXiv:2010.09741)
using discussion in
- Andrei Okounkov, Section 3.4 of: Lectures on K-theoretic computations in enumerative geometry (arXiv:1512.07363)
See also on the Witten index for D=3 N=2 super Yang-Mills theory:
- Mathew Bullimore, Andrea E. V. Ferrari, Heeyeon Kim, The 3d Twisted Index and Wall-Crossing (arXiv:1912.09591)
Wilson loop operators
On Wilson loop operators in D=3 N=4 super Yang-Mills theory:
- Tudor Dimofte, Niklas Garner, Michael Geracie, Justin Hilburn, Mirror symmetry and line operators (arXiv:1908.00013)
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