COHA and AGT for Spiked Instantons

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:19020067,
            doi = {10.48660/19020067},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/19020067},
            author = {Rapcak, Miroslav},
            keywords = {Mathematical physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {COHA and AGT for Spiked Instantons },
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2019},
            month = {feb},
            note = {PIRSA:19020067 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/index.php/pirsa/19020067}}
          }
          

Abstract

The well-known AGT correspondence relates $\mathcal{W}_N$-algebras and supersymmetric gauge theories on $\mathbb{C}^2$. Embedding $\mathbb{C}^2$ as a coordinate plane inside $\mathbb{C}^3$, one can associate the COHA to $\mathbb{C}^3$ and derive the corresponding $\mathcal{W}_N$ as a truncation of its Drinfeld double. Building up on Zhao's talk, I will discuss a generalization of this story, where $\mathbb{C}^2$ is replaced by a more general divisor inside $\mathbb{C}^3$ with three smooth components supported on the three coordinate planes. Truncations of the Drinfeld double lead to a three-parameter family of algebras $\mathcal{W}_{L,M,N}$ determining the vertex algebras associated to Nekrasov's spiked instantons. Many interesting questions emerge when considering a general Calabi-Yau three-fold instead of $\mathbb{C}^3$. I will discuss a class of vertex algebras conjecturally arising from divisors inside more general toric Calabi-Yau three-folds.