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Seiberg-Witten curve

SW-curve in SW-theory

The notion of the Seiberg-Witten curve in Seiberg-Witten theory originates in:

• Nathan Seiberg, Edward Witten, pp. 37 in: Monopoles, duality and chiral symmetry breaking in $N=2$

  supersymmetric QCD, Nucl. Phys. B431 (1994) 484-550 [hep-th/9408099]

Review:

• Taro Kimura, §4.2.3.1 in: Instanton Counting, Quantum Geometry and Algebra, Mathematical Physics Studies, Springer (2021) [doi:10.1007/978-3-030-76190-5_4]

and in relation to integrable systems:

• Andrei Marshakov, Seiberg-Witten Curves and Integrable Systems [arXiv:hep-th/9903252]

As M5-brane worldvolume

Observation that under geometric engineering of D=4 N=2 SYM on D4/NS5 intersections and further lift to a single M5-brane, the SW-curve is identified with the M5-worldvolume transverse to the SYM-spacetime:

• Albrecht Klemm, Wolfgang Lerche, Peter Mayr, Cumrun Vafa, Nicholas Warner, Self-Dual Strings and $\mathcal{N}=2$ Supersymmetric Field Theory, Nucl. Phys. B 477 (1996) 746-766 [arXiv:hep-th/9604034, doi:10.1016/0550-3213(96)00353-7]

• Edward Witten, Solutions Of Four-Dimensional Field Theories Via M Theory, Nucl. Phys. B 500 (1997) 3-42 [arXiv:hep-th/9703166, doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00416-1]

Further early discussion:

• Karl Landsteiner, Esperanza Lopez, David A. Lowe, $\mathcal{N}$=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories, Branes and Orientifolds, Nucl. Phys. B 507 (1997) 197-226 [arXiv:hep-th/9705199, doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00559-2]

• A. Brandhuber, Jacob Sonnenschein, Stefan Theisen, Shimon Yankielowicz, M Theory And Seiberg-Witten Curves: Orthogonal and Symplectic Groups, Nucl. Phys. B 504 (1997) 175-188 [arXiv:hep-th/9705232, doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00531-2]

Review in:

• Csaba Csaki, Joshua Erlich, John Terning, pp. 4 of; Seiberg-Witten Description of the Deconstructed 6D $(0,2)$ Theory, Phys. Rev. D 67 025019 (2003) [arXiv:hep-th/0208095, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.67.025019]

• Francesco Benini, Sergio Benvenuti, Yuji Tachikawa, p. 2 of: Webs of five-branes and $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories, JHEP 0909:052 (2009) [arXiv:0906.0359]

• Ling Bao, Elli Pomoni, Masato Taki, Futoshi Yagi, p. 5 of: M5-branes, toric diagrams and gauge theory duality, J. High Energ. Phys. 2012 105 (2012) [arXiv:1112.5228, doi:10.1007/JHEP04(2012)105]

• Taro Kimura, §4.5.2 in: Seiberg–Witten Geometry, Chapter 4 in: Instanton Counting, Quantum Geometry and Algebra, Mathematical Physics Studies, Springer (2021) [doi:10.1007/978-3-030-76190-5_4]

Quantum SW-curve

On the “quantum SW curve”, a kind of quantized SW curve:

• Alba Grassi, Jie Gu, Marcos Mariño, Non-perturbative approaches to the quantum Seiberg-Witten curve, J. High Energ. Phys. 2020 106 (2020) [arXiv:1908.07065, doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2020)106 ]

In relation to class S-theories and “M3-brane”-defect branes inside M5-branes:

• Jin Chen, Babak Haghighat, Hee-Cheol Kim, Marcus Sperling, Elliptic Quantum Curves of Class $\mathcal{S}_k$, J. High Energ. Phys. 2021 28 (2021) [arXiv:2008.05155, doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2021)028]

In relation to E-strings and D6-D8-brane bound states:

• Jin Chen, Babak Haghighat, Hee-Cheol Kim, Marcus Sperling, Xin Wang, E-string Quantum Curve, Nuclear Physics B 973 (2021) 115602 [arXiv:2103.16996, doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2021.115602]

On why the SW-curve should be quantized this way, as seen from topological string theory:

• Mina Aganagic, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Albrecht Klemm, Marcos Mariño, Cumrun Vafa, pp. 7 of: Topological Strings and Integrable Hierarchies, Commun. Math. Phys. 261 (2006) 451-516 [arXiv:hep-th/0312085, doi:10.1007/s00220-005-1448-9]

• Mina Aganagic, Miranda Cheng, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Daniel Krefl, Cumrun Vafa, §2 in: Quantum Geometry of Refined Topological Strings, J. High Energ. Phys. 2012 19 (2012) [arXiv:1105.0630, doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2012)019]