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Main Authors: Gupta, Kunal, Longhi, Pietro
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08445
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author Gupta, Kunal
Longhi, Pietro
author_facet Gupta, Kunal
Longhi, Pietro
contents We study 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ $U(1)$ Chern-Simons-matter QFT on a cylinder $C\times\mathbb{R}$. The topology of $C$ gives rise to BPS sectors of low-energy solitons known as kinky vortices, which interpolate between (possibly) different vacua at the ends of the cylinder and at the same time carry magnetic flux. We compute the spectrum of BPS vortices on the cylinder in an isolated Higgs vacuum, through the framework of \emph{warped} exponential networks, which we introduce. We then conjecture a relation between these and standard vortices on $\mathbb{R}^2$, which are related to genus-zero open Gromov-Witten invariants of toric branes. More specifically, we show that in the limit of large Fayet-Iliopoulos coupling, the spectrum of kinky vortices on $C$ undergoes an infinite sequence of wall-crossing transitions, and eventually stabilizes. We then propose an exact relation between a generating series of stabilized CFIV indices and the Gromov-Witten disk potential, and discuss its consequences for the structure of moduli spaces of vortices.
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spellingShingle Vortices on Cylinders and Warped Exponential Networks
Gupta, Kunal
Longhi, Pietro
High Energy Physics - Theory
We study 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ $U(1)$ Chern-Simons-matter QFT on a cylinder $C\times\mathbb{R}$. The topology of $C$ gives rise to BPS sectors of low-energy solitons known as kinky vortices, which interpolate between (possibly) different vacua at the ends of the cylinder and at the same time carry magnetic flux. We compute the spectrum of BPS vortices on the cylinder in an isolated Higgs vacuum, through the framework of \emph{warped} exponential networks, which we introduce. We then conjecture a relation between these and standard vortices on $\mathbb{R}^2$, which are related to genus-zero open Gromov-Witten invariants of toric branes. More specifically, we show that in the limit of large Fayet-Iliopoulos coupling, the spectrum of kinky vortices on $C$ undergoes an infinite sequence of wall-crossing transitions, and eventually stabilizes. We then propose an exact relation between a generating series of stabilized CFIV indices and the Gromov-Witten disk potential, and discuss its consequences for the structure of moduli spaces of vortices.
title Vortices on Cylinders and Warped Exponential Networks
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08445