nLab Davide Gaiotto

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Selected writings

On open/closed string duality:

• Davide Gaiotto, Leonardo Rastelli, A paradigm of open/closed duality: Liouville D-branes and the Kontsevich model, JHEP 0507:053,2005 (hep-th/0312196)

On dimensional reduction of black rings in D=5 gravity to black holes in D=4 gravity:

• Davide Gaiotto, Andrew Strominger, Xi Yin, 5D Black Rings and 4D Black Holes, JHEP 0602:023, 2006 (arXiv:hep-th/0504126)

On D3-D5 brane bound states:

• Davide Gaiotto, Edward Witten, Supersymmetric Boundary Conditions in N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory, J Stat Phys (2009) 135: 789 (arXiv:0804.2902)

On knot invariants from Yang-Mills theory:

• Davide Gaiotto, Edward Witten, Knot Invariants from Four-Dimensional Gauge Theory, Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Volume 16 (2012) Number 3 (arxiv:1106.4789)

On the AGT correspondence:

• Davide Gaiotto, $N=2$ dualities, JHEP08(2012)034 (arXiv:0904.2715)

• Luis Alday, Davide Gaiotto, Yuji Tachikawa, Liouville Correlation Functions from Four-dimensional Gauge Theories, Lett.Math.Phys.91:167-197, 2010 (arXiv:0906.3219)

• Davide Gaiotto, Gregory Moore, Andrew Neitzke, Wall-crossing, Hitchin systems, and the WKB approximation, Advances in Mathematics 234 (2013) 239–403 (arXiv:0907.3987)

On the M5-brane elliptic genus:

• Davide Gaiotto, Andrew Strominger, Xi Yin, The M5-Brane Elliptic Genus: Modularity and BPS States, JHEP 0708:070, 2007 (hep-th/0607010)

• Davide Gaiotto, Xi Yin, Examples of M5-Brane Elliptic Genera, JHEP 0711:004, 2007 (arXiv:hep-th/0702012)

On Coulomb branch singularities in D=3 N=4 super Yang-Mills theory:

• Mathew Bullimore, Tudor Dimofte, Davide Gaiotto, The Coulomb Branch of 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ Theories, Commun. Math. Phys. (2017) 354: 671 (arXiv:1503.04817)

  (relation to Nahm's equations and the moduli space of monopoles)

On the theta angle in QCD:

• Davide Gaiotto, Anton Kapustin, Zohar Komargodski, Nathan Seiberg, Theta, Time Reversal, and Temperature, JHEP05(2017)091 (arXiv:1703.00501)

On M-theory on S1/G_HW times H/G_ADE and D=6 N=(1,0) SCFT and D6-D8 brane intersections and their fuzzy funnel noncommutative geometry:

• Davide Gaiotto, Alessandro Tomasiello, Holography for $(1,0)$ theories in six dimensions, JHEP 12 (2014) 003 (arXiv:1404.0711)

On Kazama-Suzuki models:

• Davide Gaiotto, Kazama-Suzuki models and BPS domain wall junctions in $N=1$ $SU(n)$ Super Yang-Mills (arxiv:1306.5661)

On generalized global symmetries:

• Davide Gaiotto, Anton Kapustin, Nathan Seiberg, Brian Willett, Generalized Global Symmetries J. High Energ. Phys. 2015 172 (2015) [arXiv:1412.5148, doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2015)172]

On extended TQFTs allegedly modelling topological phases of matter in solid state physics:

• Davide Gaiotto, Theo Johnson-Freyd, Condensations in higher categories (arXiv:1905.09566)

On the Witten index of D=3 N=4 super Yang-Mills theory:

• Davide Gaiotto, Tadashi Okazaki, Sphere correlation functions and Verma modules (arXiv:1911.11126)

Construction of 2d SCFTs from error-correcting codes and suggestion that the Chern-Dold character from tmf to modular forms, sends a 2d SCFT to its partition function/elliptic genus/supersymmetric index:

• Davide Gaiotto, Theo Johnson-Freyd, Holomorphic SCFTs with small index, Canadian Journal of Mathematics , 74 2 (2022) 573-601 [arXiv:1811.00589, doi:10.4153/S0008414X2100002X]

and discussion of the 2d SCFTs (namely supersymmetric SU(2)-WZW-models) conjecturally corresponding, under this conjectural identification, to the elements of $\mathbb{Z}/24$ $\simeq$ $tmf^{-3}(\ast) = \pi_3(tmf)$ $\simeq$ $\pi_3(\mathbb{S})$ (the third stable homotopy group of spheres):

• Davide Gaiotto, Theo Johnson-Freyd, Edward Witten, p. 17 of: A Note On Some Minimally Supersymmetric Models In Two Dimensions, (arXiv:1902.10249) in S. Novikov et al. Integrability, Quantization, and Geometry: II. Quantum Theories and Algebraic Geometry, Proc. Symposia Pure Math., 103(2), 2021 (ISBN: 978-1-4704-5592-7)

• Davide Gaiotto, Theo Johnson-Freyd, Mock modularity and a secondary elliptic genus (arXiv:1904.05788)

Related entries

• BPS state, wall crossing

• AGT correspondence

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