15 November 2023 Virtual Coulomb branch and vertex functions
Zijun Zhou
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Duke Math. J. 172(17): 3359-3428 (15 November 2023). DOI: 10.1215/00127094-2023-0009

Abstract

We introduce a variant of the K-theoretic quantized Coulomb branch constructed by Braverman, Finkelberg, and Nakajima, by application of a new virtual intersection theory. In the abelian case, we define Verma modules for such virtual Coulomb branches, and relate them to the moduli spaces of quasimaps into the corresponding Higgs branches. The descendent vertex functions, defined by K-theoretic quasimap invariants of the Higgs branch, can be realized as the associated Whittaker functions. The quantum q-difference modules and Bethe algebras (analogue of quantum K-theory rings) can then be described in terms of the virtual Coulomb branch. As an application, we prove the wall-crossing result for quantum q-difference modules under the variation of GIT. Nonabelian cases are also treated via abelianization.

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Zijun Zhou. "Virtual Coulomb branch and vertex functions." Duke Math. J. 172 (17) 3359 - 3428, 15 November 2023. https://doi.org/10.1215/00127094-2023-0009

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Received: 2 August 2021; Revised: 4 February 2023; Published: 15 November 2023
First available in Project Euclid: 14 January 2024

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1215/00127094-2023-0009

Subjects:
Primary: 14D21 , 14N35 , 81R10
Secondary: 19L47 , 81T60

Keywords: quantized Coulomb branch , quantum q-difference module , vertex function , virtual intersection theory

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