Superspin chains from superstring theory
Nafiz Ishtiaque, Seyed Faroogh Moosavian, Surya Raghavendran, Junya Yagi
Abstract
We present a correspondence between two-dimensional \mathcal{N} = (2,2) <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mstyle mathvariant="script"> <mml:mi>𝒩</mml:mi> </mml:mstyle> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:mo stretchy="false" form="prefix">(</mml:mo> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> <mml:mo stretchy="false" form="postfix">)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> supersymmetric gauge theories and rational integrable \mathfrak{gl}(m|n) <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mstyle mathvariant="fraktur"> <mml:mi>𝔤</mml:mi> <mml:mi>𝔩</mml:mi> </mml:mstyle> <mml:mo stretchy="false" form="prefix">(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>m</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false" form="prefix">|</mml:mo> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false" form="postfix">)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> spin chains with spin variables taking values in Verma modules. To explain this correspondence, we realize the gauge theories as configurations of branes in string theory and map them by dualities to brane configurations that realize line defects in four-dimensional Chern–Simons theory with gauge group GL(m|n) <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>G</mml:mi> <mml:mi>L</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false" form="prefix">(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>m</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false" form="prefix">|</mml:mo> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false" form="postfix">)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> . The latter configurations embed the superspin chains into superstring theory. We also provide a string theory derivation of a similar correspondence, proposed by Nekrasov, for rational \mathfrak{gl}(m|n) <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mstyle mathvariant="fraktur"> <mml:mi>𝔤</mml:mi> <mml:mi>𝔩</mml:mi> </mml:mstyle> <mml:mo stretchy="false" form="prefix">(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>m</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false" form="prefix">|</mml:mo> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false" form="postfix">)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> spin chains with spins valued in finite-dimensional representations.