Wall-crossing, Rogers dilogarithm and the QK/HK correspondence
Journal article, 2011

When formulated in twistor space, the D-instanton corrected hypermultiplet moduli space in N=2 string vacua and the Coulomb branch of rigid N=2 gauge theories on R^3 x S^1 are strikingly similar and, to a large extent, dictated by consistency with wall-crossing. We elucidate this similarity by showing that these two spaces are related under a general duality between, on one hand, quaternion-Kahler manifolds with a quaternionic isometry and, on the other hand, hyperkahler manifolds with a rotational isometry, further equipped with a hyperholomorphic circle bundle with a connection. We show that the transition functions of the hyperholomorphic circle bundle relevant for the hypermultiplet moduli space are given by the Rogers dilogarithm function, and that consistency across walls of marginal stability is ensured by the motivic wall-crossing formula of Kontsevich and Soibelman. We illustrate the construction on some simple examples of wall-crossing related to cluster algebras for rank 2 Dynkin quivers. In an appendix we also provide a detailed discussion on the general relation between wall-crossing and the theory of cluster algebras.

Supersymmetric gauge theory

Solitons Monopoles and Instantons

D-branes

Superstring Vacua

Author

Sergei Alexandrov

CERN

Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC)

Daniel Persson

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Mathematical Physics

Boris Pioline

CERN

Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC)

Journal of High Energy Physics

1126-6708 (ISSN) 1029-8479 (eISSN)

Vol. 2011 12 027- 027

Subject Categories

Subatomic Physics

Mathematics

Roots

Basic sciences

DOI

10.1007/JHEP12(2011)027

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