CMSA Mathematical Physics Seminar: Topological recursion in 4d N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories

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Speaker:

Gaëtan Borot - HU Berlin

According to the Alday-Gaiotto-Tachikawa conjecture (proved in this case by Schiffman and Vasserot), the instanton partition function in 4d N = 2 SU(r) supersymmetric gauge theory on P^2 with equivariant parameters ε₁, ε₂ is the norm of a Whittaker vector for W(gl_r) algebra. I will explain how these Whittaker vectors can be computed (at least perturbatively in the energy scale) by topological recursion for ε₁ + ε₂ = 0, and by a non-commutation version of the topological recursion in the Nekrasov-Shatashvili regime where ε₁/ε₂ is fixed. This is a joint work to appear with Bouchard, Chidambaram and Creutzig.

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