The Liouville Geometry of N=2 Instantons and the Moduli of Punctured Spheres

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2004-05-12

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0405117v3

JHEP0405:075,2004

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

58 pages, no figure, harvmac, v2: references added, typos corrected, v3: references added

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2004/05/075

We study the instanton contributions of N=2 supersymmetric gauge theory and propose that the instanton moduli space is mapped to the moduli space of punctured spheres. Due to the recursive structure of the boundary in the Deligne-Knudsen-Mumford stable compactification, this leads to a new recursion relation for the instanton coefficients, which is bilinear. Instanton contributions are expressed as integrals on M_{0,n} in the framework of the Liouville F-models. This also suggests considering instanton contributions as a kind of Hurwitz numbers and also provides a prediction on the asymptotic form of the Gromov-Witten invariants. We also interpret this map in terms of the geometric engineering approach to the gauge theory, namely the topological A-model, as well as in the noncritical string theory framework. We speculate on the extension to nontrivial gravitational background and its relation to the uniformization program. Finally we point out an intriguing analogy with the self-dual YM equations for the gravitational version of SU(2) where surprisingly the same Hauptmodule of the SW solution appears.

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