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Cluster-Like Coordinates in Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theory Cluster-like coordinates in supersymmetric quantum SPECIAL FEATURE field theory Andrew Neitzke1 Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 Edited by Lauren K. Williams, University of California, Berkeley, CA, and accepted by the Editorial Board April 30, 2014 (received for review November 20, 2013) Recently it has become apparent that N = 2 supersymmetric quan- enlargement of the usual cluster story, and we are hopeful that it tum field theory has something to do with cluster algebras. I re- may be of some interest for the cluster community. view one aspect of the connection: supersymmetric quantum field The connection between N = 2 theories and the structures theories have associated hyperkähler moduli spaces, and these mod- studied in the cluster community goes well beyond what I can uli spaces carry a structure that looks like an extension of the notion describe here, and presumably there is much more still to be of cluster variety. In particular, one encounters the usual variables and discovered. For some work in the physics literature, see refs. 5–9. mutations of the cluster story, along with more exotic extra variables There is also another way in which cluster algebras have been and generalized mutations. I focusonaclassofexampleswherethe connected to supersymmetric quantum field theory, namely in underlying cluster varieties are moduli spaces of flat connections on perturbative scattering amplitudes in N = 4 theories (10, 11). I surfaces, as considered by Fock and Goncharov [Fock V, Goncharov A do not know any relation between that story and the one re- (2006) Publ Math Inst Hautes Études Sci 103:1–211]. The work viewed here, beyond the fact that cluster algebras show up in reviewed here is largely joint with Davide Gaiotto and Greg Moore. both places. character varieties | Hitchin systems | supersymmetry 2. Expectations We begin with a brief rundown of the expectations that come from quantum field theory: given an N = 2 theory (whatever that 1. Introduction is), we expect to get all of the following objects and conditions. MATHEMATICS Supersymmetric quantum field theory has been a rich source of The relation to cluster algebras is most apparent in X5 and mathematical ideas and insights over the last few decades. This X6 below. paper is a review of one new facet of that story, which concerns a As we will see below, we expect in particular that we have a relation between N = 2 supersymmetric quantum field theories in hyperkähler space M, which, considered as a complex space, four dimensions, or N = 2 theories for short, and cluster algebras. looks very different depending on which complex structure we × Quantum field theory is far from a mathematically rigorous use. In any complex structure Jζ for ζ ∈ C , M has a structure subject. Nevertheless, the study of quantum field theory some- much like that of a cluster variety in the sense of ref. 4. Con- times leads to precise predictions about concrete mathematical versely, in complex structure J0, M looks very different: it is a objects. In particular, every N = 2 theory is expected to give rise complex integrable system, fibered by compact complex tori over to a family of moduli spaces M½R, parameterized by R > 0. a complex base B. From now on, we write M for any M½R. For the rest of this paper, we will mainly focus on the complex × M is expected to carry a number of interesting structures. For structures Jζ for ζ ∈ C , because these are the ones that make example, M is a complex integrable system, carrying a compati- direct contact with the cluster story. I emphasize, however, that – ble hyperkähler metric. M is a Calabi Yau space, which arises some of the most interesting applications arise from the interplay × naturally as a special Lagrangian fibration. This setup is precisely between the cluster-like spaces at ζ ∈ C and the complex in- the one introduced by Strominger et al. (1) for studying mirror ζ = 2.8 – tegrable system at 0, expressed by Eq. For example, this symmetry of Calabi Yau manifolds. Moreover M is essentially interplay is the key to a proposed scheme for describing the self-mirror. hyperkähler metric on M (2, 12). In joint work of the author with Davide Gaiotto and Greg Moore The reader who knows a bit of quantum field theory should (2, 3), it was appreciated that quantum field theory suggests that read this section in parallel with section 5 below, where we give an M has another important structure, a collection of canonical indication of where these expectations come from. local Darboux coordinate systems fX γg. These coordinate sys- tems are related to one another by transformations that gener- alize the behavior of cluster coefficients under mutation (see Eq. Significance 2.4). The main aim of this paper is to describe the expected prop- erties of the functions X γ′ and some examples of their construction. The subject of cluster algebras was born out of the study of Most of the paper is written with a mathematical reader in mind; in concrete mathematical questions such as “how can we detect section 5, I describe a bit more of the physical underpinnings of when a matrix will have all eigenvalues positive?” Recently it the story. has turned out that cluster algebras show up in all kinds of un- As we will describe, in some cases, the X γ are essentially the expected places, even in the physicists’ playground of quantum “cluster X coordinates” on moduli spaces of local systems in- field theory. This paper is a review of one way in which quantum troduced by Fock and Goncharov in ref. 4. Even in these cases, field theory and cluster algebras interact. In particular, the paper the field theory perspective leads to a new geometric way of argues that geometric ideas coming from quantum field theory thinking about the cluster X coordinates. It appears, however, lead to a natural extension of the theory of cluster algebras. that there are other cases in which the X γ are not cluster coor- dinates, but rather a generalization thereof. Moreover, even in Author contributions: A.N. wrote the paper. the cases where X γ are cluster coordinates, our perspective leads The author declares no conflict of interest. to considering coordinate transformations that are not cluster This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. L.K.W. is a guest editor invited by the Editorial transformations (see Eq. 2.4 for the most general possibility and Board. Eq. 4.4 for a concrete instance). Thus, we seem to be meeting an 1Email: [email protected]. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1313073111 PNAS | July 8, 2014 | vol. 111 | no. 27 | 9717–9724 Downloaded by guest on September 28, 2021 À Á C1. There is a complex manifold B. (In the best-studied exam- + − hγ;γ i = + γ h ; [2.5] ples, B is noncompact and indeed an affine-linear space.) X γ X γ 1 X h C2. There is a local system of lattices Γ over the complement of some divisor D ⊂ B, obtained as an extension for some fixed γh ∈ Γ. This rule will look familiar to cluster enthusiasts: it is very close to the mutation law for coefficients 0 → Γ → Γ → Γ → 0; [2.1] f g in the sense of ref. 15 or, equivalently, the coordinate change under mutation in a cluster X variety in the sense of ref. 4. Γ Γ where f is a fixed lattice (trivial local system). carries an 2.5 X integral antisymmetric pairing〈,〉, which vanishes on Γ and thus Eq. is not quite identical to the mutation in the vari- f ety, but this difference arises for an easy reason: the cluster induces a pairing on Γg; this induced pairing on Γg is unimod- coordinates xi are labeled by the elements i of some seed, ular (therefore, in particular, Γg has even rank). whereas our functions X γ are labeled by elements γ ∈ Γ; M1. For any R > 0, there is a hyperkähler space M½R. thus, to relate the two, we need to assign a basis element γ ∈ Γ For background on hyperkähler spaces, see refs. 13 and 14. i to each i; after this is done, the two transformation Here we quickly review the basics. As with any hyperkähler laws become literally identical. space, M has a family of complex structures Jζ parameter- The changes of coordinates (Eq. 2.4) are a generalization of ized by ζ ∈ CP1 and a family of holomorphic symplectic the mutation in the X variety; therefore, in the rest of this forms ϖζ. The complex structures Jζ are organized into a paper, we will call them generalized mutations. single twistor space Z. Z is diffeomorphic to M × CP1 and × ζ As an aside, the integers Ω(γ) in Eq. 2.4 are expected to has a complex structure that restricts on each M f g to Jζ, – such that the projection Z → CP1 is holomorphic. We will be generalized Donaldson Thomas invariants, in the sense × 1 of refs. 16 and 17. In the case K = 2, this expectation has mainly be interested in the Jζ with ζ ∈ C ⊂ CP ; thus, let × Z′ be the subset of Z corresponding to M × C ⊂ M × CP1. been made precise in ref. 18. The celebrated wall-crossing × – We denote points of Z′ by ðx; ζÞ ∈ M × C . formula for generalized Donaldson Thomas invariants, in the form written in ref. 16, has a simple interpretation in our M2. Viewed as a complex space using complex structure J0, M setting: it is the fact that if ðu; ϑÞ travel around a contractible π → = 1 u;ϑ has a holomorphic projection : M B, where dimB loop in B × S , the X γ undergo a sequence of jumps of the − ð1=2ÞdimM.
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