Coulomb branches for quaternionic representations
Abstract
I describe the \emph{Chiral rings} $R_{3,4}$ for $3$D, $N=4$ supersymmetric $G$-gauge theory and matter fields in quaternionic representations $E$: 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 $w_4(E)$ modulo squares, for $R_3$; a secondary obstruction, from $\eta\cdot E$, may appear for $R_4$. Flatness over the Toda bases allows their calculation by reduction to $\mathrm{SU}_2$. For some representations, an Abelianization formula describes the $R$ in terms of the maximal torus and the Weyl group. This provides an alternative to a recent attempt arxiv:2201.09475.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- September 2022
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2209.01088
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2209.01088
- Bibcode:
- 2022arXiv220901088T
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Algebraic Topology;
- Mathematical Physics;
- 55N91;
- 22E46;
- 81T13
- E-Print:
- 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