BPS Quivers

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We explored the relationship between four-dimensional N=2 quantum field theories and their associated BPS quivers. For a wide class of theories including super-Yang-Mills theories, Argyres-Douglas models, and theories defined by M5-branes on punctured Riemann surfaces, there exists a quiver which implicitly characterizes the field theory. We studied various aspects of this correspondence including the quiver interpretation of flavor symmetries, gauging, decoupling limits, and field theory dualities. In general a given quiver describes only a patch of the moduli space of the field theory, and a key role is played by quantum mechanical dualities, encoded by quiver mutations, which relate distinct quivers valid in different patches. Analyzing the consistency conditions imposed on the spectrum by these dualities results in a powerful and novel mutation method for determining the BPS states. We applied this method to determine the BPS spectrum in a wide class of examples, including the strong coupling spectrum of super-Yang-Mills with an ADE gauge group and fundamental matter, and trinion theories defined by M5-branes on spheres with three punctures.

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N=2 Quantum Field Theories and Their BPS Quivers.
Murad Alim, Sergio Cecotti, Clay Cordova, Sam Espahbodi, Ashwin Rastogi, Cumrun Vafa
arXiv:1112.3984.

BPS Quivers and Spectra of Complete N=2 Quantum Field Theories.
Murad Alim, Sergio Cecotti, Clay Cordova, Sam Espahbodi, Ashwin Rastogi, Cumrun Vafa
arXiv:1109.4941. Communications in Mathematical Physics, November 2013, Volume 323, Issue 3, pp 1185-1227.