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Vortices, Instantons and Branes

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The purpose of this paper is to describe a relationship between the moduli space of vortices and the moduli space of instantons. We study charge k vortices in U(N) Yang-Mills-Higgs theories and show that the moduli space is isomorphic to a special Lagrangian submanifold of the moduli space of k instantons in non-commutative U(N) Yang-Mills theories. This submanifold is the fixed point set of a U(1) action on the instanton moduli space which rotates the instantons in a plane. To derive this relationship, we present a D-brane construction in which the dynamics of vortices is described by the Higgs branch of a U(k) gauge theory with 4 supercharges which is a truncation of the familiar ADHM gauge theory. We further describe a moduli space construction for semi-local vortices, lumps in the CP(N) and Grassmannian sigma-models, and vortices on the non-commutative plane. We argue that this relationship between vortices and instantons underlies many of the quantitative similarities shared by quantum field theories in two and four dimensions.

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Meromorphic amplitudes from 3-dimensional supersymmetry

hep-th · 2026-06-16 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Coon amplitude equals 3d N=2 half-index of XYZ model with boundary conditions; IR flow gives Veneziano amplitude, and elliptic completion of q^ST yields a meromorphic positive version.

Quiver Yangians as Coulomb branch algebras

hep-th · 2025-02-03 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Conjectures that quantum Coulomb branch algebras of 3D N=4 unitary quiver gauge theories equal truncated shifted quiver Yangians Y(ˆQ, ˆW), verified explicitly for tree-type quivers via monopole actions on 1/2-BPS vortices.

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  • Meromorphic amplitudes from 3-dimensional supersymmetry hep-th · 2026-06-16 · unverdicted · none · ref 62 · internal anchor

    Coon amplitude equals 3d N=2 half-index of XYZ model with boundary conditions; IR flow gives Veneziano amplitude, and elliptic completion of q^ST yields a meromorphic positive version.

  • Quiver Yangians as Coulomb branch algebras hep-th · 2025-02-03 · unverdicted · none · ref 49 · internal anchor

    Conjectures that quantum Coulomb branch algebras of 3D N=4 unitary quiver gauge theories equal truncated shifted quiver Yangians Y(ˆQ, ˆW), verified explicitly for tree-type quivers via monopole actions on 1/2-BPS vortices.

  • Hadrons in $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric QCD from non-Abelian string on 2D black hole hep-th · 2026-05-07 · unverdicted · none · ref 1

    The hadron spectrum in N=2 SQCD with N_f=2N is given by the spectrum of a non-Abelian string on a 2D N=2 supersymmetric black hole, with a Higgs-to-string phase transition viewed as a conifold transition.