Speaker
Sungjay Lee
(Univ Chicago)
Description
In the first part of this talk, we discuss the equivariant elliptic genera of ALE and ALF manifolds. The elliptic genera exhibit interesting pole structure as a function of the chemical potentials. We use this to decompose the answers into polar terms that exhibit wall-crossing and universal terms. We also discuss applications of our results to counting of BPS world-sheet spectrum of self-dual strings in the 6d N=(2,0) theories.
In the second part of the talk, we consider two-dimensional N = (4, 4) supersymmetric gauge theories which do not have classical Higgs branches. These theories however are believed to have isolated quantum Higgs vacua with a mass gap. We provide a field theoretic argument for the existence of such vacua.
