An Introduction to the Web-Based Formalism

Davide Gaiotto; Gregory W. Moore; Edward Witten

doi:10.5802/cml.40

Davide Gaiotto ¹ ; Gregory W. Moore ² ; Edward Witten ³

¹ Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics; 31 Caroline Street North; ON N2L 2Y5; Canada
² NHETC and Department of Physics and Astronomy; Rutgers University; Piscataway, NJ 08855–0849; USA
³ School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study; Princeton, NJ 08540; USA

Confluentes Mathematici, Tome 9 (2017) no. 2, pp. 5-48.

Résumé

This paper summarizes our rather lengthy paper, “Algebra of the Infrared: String Field Theoretic Structures in Massive $𝒩 = (2, 2)$ Field Theory In Two Dimensions,” and is meant to be an informal, yet detailed, introduction and summary of that larger work.

Reçu le : 2015-12-05
Accepté le : 2016-06-12
Accepté après révision le : 2016-12-05
Publié le : 2017-12-13

MR Zbl

DOI : 10.5802/cml.40

Classification : 37K40, 53D37, 81T30, 81T40, 81Q60
Mots clés : Fukaya-Seidel category, supersymmetric quantum mechanics, two-dimensional field theory, soliton, wall-crossing

Affiliations des auteurs :

Davide Gaiotto ¹ ; Gregory W. Moore ² ; Edward Witten ³

Licence :

CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0

Droits d'auteur : Les auteurs conservent leurs droits

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Davide Gaiotto; Gregory W. Moore; Edward Witten. An Introduction to the Web-Based Formalism. Confluentes Mathematici, Tome 9 (2017) no. 2, pp. 5-48. doi : 10.5802/cml.40. https://cml.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/cml.40/

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