Classification of minimal Abelian Coulomb branches
Obtaining the classification of three-dimensional (3D) <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><a:mi mathvariant="script">N</a:mi><a:mo>=</a:mo><a:mn>4</a:mn></a:math> quivers whose Coulomb branches have an isolated singularity is an essential step in understanding moduli spaces of vacua of supersymmetric field theories with eight supercharges in any dimension. In this work, we derive a full classification for such Abelian quivers with arbitrary charges and identify all possible Coulomb branch geometries as quotients of <d:math xmlns:d="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><d:msup><d:mi mathvariant="double-struck">H</d:mi><d:mi>n</d:mi></d:msup></d:math> by U(1) or a finite cyclic group. We give two proofs, one which uses the “decay and fission” algorithm and another one relying only on explicit computations involving 3D mirror symmetry. In the process, we put forward a method for computing the 3D mirror of any <g:math xmlns:g="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><g:mi mathvariant="normal">U</g:mi><g:mo stretchy="false">(</g:mo><g:mn>1</g:mn><g:msup><g:mo stretchy="false">)</g:mo><g:mi>r</g:mi></g:msup></g:math> gauge theory, which is sensitive to discrete gauge factors in the mirror theory. This constitutes a confirmation for the decay and fission algorithm.
Authors
- Marcus Sperling (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4631-1392)
- Antoine Bourget (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1408-4615)
- Quentin Lamouret
- Sinan Moura Soysüren
Institutions
- University of Vienna (AT)
- Université Paris-Saclay (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
- Published
- 2025-06-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.111.125020
- Primary Topic
- Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- École Normale Supérieure
- Austrian Science Fund
- Universität Wien
- Observatoire de Paris, Université de Recherche Paris Sciences et Lettres
- Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz