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2023-07-20
the example on abelian Coulomb branch
The next simplest example is the abelian gauge theory with matter.
Let and . We find that where one can see \cite[Section 4.1]{BFN} for details.
Here we compute this using directly Note that , with base and fiber .
Write for short. Concretely, we have . Our goal is to compute the convolution of two (-equivariant) homology classes in that is supported on the fiber product For any , let denote the homology cycle supported on %where we used the isomorphism that % Let denote the projection of to the corresponding factors. Then, to compute , we need to compute the intersection (in homology) of with , in the ambient space . We compute and to illustrate.
(a) . We need to intersect the vector bundles and inside . fibers over with fiber $\Ct^3(n_1, n_2, n_3)n_1 - n_2 = -1, n_2-n_3=1\Z^3$ V_{12} = \{(s_1, s_2, s_3) \in \Ct^3 \mid t^{n_1} s_1 = t^{n_2} s_2, \text{i.e.} s_1 = t^{-1} s_2 \} V_{23} = \{(s_1, s_2, s_3) \in \Ct^3 \mid t^{n_2} s_2 = t^{n_3} s_3 , \text{i.e.} s_2 = t s_3 \}. $$ $V_{12}$ has a basis given by $(\{ t^{n+1}, t^n, 0) | n \in \Z_{\geq 0}\} \cup \{(0,0,t^m) \mid m \in \Z_{\geq 0}\}$. $V_{23}$ has a basis given by $(\{ 0, t^{n+1}, t^n) | n \in \Z_{\geq 0}\} \cup \{(t^m, 0,0) \mid m \in \Z_{\geq 0}\}$. We may check that $V_{12} + V_{23}$ has a basis of $\{(t^a, 0, 0)\} \cup \{(0, t^{b+1}, 0)\} \cup \{(0,0,t^c)\}$ where $a,b,c \in \Z_{\geq 0}$, and the basis vector $(0, 1, 0)$ in $\Ct^3V_{12}V_{23}$ \frac{\Ct^3}{V_{12} + V_{23}} \cong \Ct / t \Ct \cong \C. $$ This cokernel lives in the middle section $s_2$, and we need to use $g_1^{-1} g_2 s_2$ to translate it to the first (left most) slot, to have the correct $\C^*_{rot}$ action. What BFN did is to translate all the computation to the first slot, drop data on $s_1$. So, instead of having $\Ct^3(g_{12} s_2, g_{13} s_3) \in t^{a} N(O) \oplus t^{a+b} N(O)g_{ij} = g_i^{-1} g_jg_{12}=t^a, g_{23} = t^b$.
Why BFN can forget about slot? This is because at the end of the day, after we enforce the compatibility conditions, is determined by the group element , and section . It is like how we label a graph of a bijection , not by the pair , but by alone.
(b) . We repeat the above setup, and we find that $$ V_{12} = \{(s_1, s_2, s_3) \in \Ct^3 \mid t^{n_1} s_1 = t^{n_2} s_2, \text{i.e.} s_1 = t^{1} s_2 \} V_{23} = \{(s_1, s_2, s_3) \in \Ct^3 \mid t^{n_2} s_2 = t^{n_3} s_3 , \text{i.e.} s_2 = t^{-1} s_3 \}. $$ And $V_{12}$ intersects $V_{23}$ transversely. However, $\pi_{13}(V_{12} \cap V_{23})$ is not the full $r_0$ but is a codimension $1$ subspace. $$ r_{1} \star r_{-1} = u r_0.$$