19.03.2012 (Monday)

N=2 Gauge Theories: Congruence Subgroups, Coset Graphs and Modular Surfaces

Regular Seminar Yang-Hui He (City University)

at:
13:00 IC
room H341
abstract:

We establish a correspondence between generalized quiver gauge theories in four-dimensions and congruence subgroups of the modular group, hinging upon the trivalent graphs which arise in both. The gauge theories and the graphs are enumerated and their numbers are compared. The correspondence is particularly striking for genus zero torsion-free congruence subgroups which are crucial to Moonshine. We analyze in detail the case of index 24, where modular elliptic K3 surfaces emerge: here, the elliptic j-invariants can be recast as dessins d'enfant which dictate the Seiberg-Witten curves.