Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2000-11-10
Commun.Math.Phys. 234 (2003) 1-35
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
49 pages, AMS Latex
Scientific paper
10.1007/s00220-002-0786-0
We study solutions of the Bogomolny equation on R^2\times S^1$ with prescribed singularities. We show that Nahm transform establishes a one-to-one correspondence between such solutions and solutions of the Hitchin equations on a punctured cylinder with the eigenvalues of the Higgs field growing at infinity in a particular manner. The moduli spaces of solutions have natural hyperkahler metrics of a novel kind. We show that these metrics describe the quantum Coulomb branch of certain N=2 d=4 supersymmetric gauge theories on R^3\times S^1. The Coulomb branches of the corresponding uncompactified theories have been previously determined by E. Witten using the M-theory fivebrane. We show that the Seiberg-Witten curves of these theories are identical to the spectral curves associated to solutions of the Bogomolny equation on R^2\times S^1. In particular, this allows us to rederive Witten's results without recourse to the M-theory fivebrane.
Cherkis Sergey A.
Kapustin A. A.
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