Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2008-07-08
Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.14:179-224,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
43 pages. Details of references updated to match published version
Scientific paper
A recent attempt to extend the geometric Langlands duality to affine Kac-Moody groups, has led Braverman and Finkelberg [arXiv:0711.2083] to conjecture a mathematical relation between the intersection cohomology of the moduli space of G-bundles on certain singular complex surfaces, and the integrable representations of the Langlands dual of an associated affine G-algebra, where G is any simply-connected semisimple group. For the A-type groups, where the conjecture has been mathematically verified to a large extent, we show that the relation has a natural physical interpretation in terms of six-dimensional compactifications of M-theory with coincident five-branes wrapping certain hyperkahler four-manifolds; in particular, it can be understood as an expected invariance in the resulting spacetime BPS spectrum under string dualities. By replacing the singular complex surface with a smooth multi-Taub-NUT manifold, we find agreement with a closely related result demonstrated earlier via purely field-theoretic considerations by Witten. By adding OM five-planes to the original analysis, we argue that an analogous relation involving the non-simply-connected D-type groups, ought to hold as well. This is the first example of a string-theoretic interpretation of such a two-dimensional extension to complex surfaces of the geometric Langlands duality for the A-D groups.
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