29 September 2015 to 2 October 2015
DESY Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

Quantum Moduli Spaces of Flat Connections and Applications

30 Sept 2015, 16:50
15m
Seminar room 1 (DESY Hamburg)

Seminar room 1

DESY Hamburg

Speaker

Mrs Ioana Coman-Lohi (DESY)

Description

Non-perturbative aspects of N=2 SUSY gauge theories of class S are encoded in the algebra of functions on the moduli space M-flat of flat SL(N)-connections on Riemann surfaces. Expectation values of Wilson and 't Hooft line operators are related to holonomies of flat connections and, in the low-energy effective theory, to Fock-Goncharov coordinates on M-flat. We determine the non-commutative algebra of UV line operators from the quantization of Fock-Goncharov Laurent polynomials and find that it coincides with the skein algebra studied in the context of Chern-Simons theory. Another realization of the skein algebra is generated by Verlinde network operators in Toda field theory. These results provide evidence for the generalization of the AGT correspondence to higher-rank class S theories.

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