Six-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories, quantum cohomology of instanton moduli spaces and gl(N) Quantum Intermediate Long Wave Hydrodynamics

Mar 25, 2014
30 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 07 (2014) 141
  • Published: 2014
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We show that the exact partition function of U(N) six-dimensional gauge theory with eight supercharges on C^2 x S^2 provides the quantization of the integrable system of hydrodynamic type known as gl(N) periodic Intermediate Long Wave (ILW). We characterize this system as the hydrodynamic limit of elliptic Calogero-Moser integrable system. We compute the Bethe equations from the effective gauged linear sigma model on S^2 with target space the ADHM instanton moduli space, whose mirror computes the Yang-Yang function of gl(N) ILW. The quantum Hamiltonians are given by the local chiral ring observables of the six-dimensional gauge theory. As particular cases, these provide the gl(N) Benjamin-Ono and Korteweg-de Vries quantum Hamiltonians. In the four dimensional limit, we identify the local chiral ring observables with the conserved charges of Heisenberg plus W_N algebrae, thus providing a gauge theoretical proof of AGT correspondence.
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  • Supersymmetric gauge theory
  • Solitons Monopoles and Instantons
  • Integrable Hierarchies
  • Topological Strings
  • dimension: 6
  • instanton: moduli space
  • gauge field theory: supersymmetry
  • cohomology: quantum
  • charge: conservation law
  • sigma model: linear