arXiv:1510.09060v2 [hep-th] 4 Mar 2016 Irregular conformal block, spectral curve and flow equations Sang Kwan Choi1, Chaiho Rim2and Hong Zhang3 Department of Physics and Center for Quantum Spacetime (CQUeST) Sogang University, Seoul 121-742, Korea Abstract Irregular conformal block is motivated by the Argyres-Douglas type of N=2 super conformal gauge theory. We investigate the classical/NS limit of irregular conformal block using the spectral curve on a Riemann surface with irregular punctures, which is equivalent to the loop equation of irregular matrix model. The spectral curve is reduced to the second order (Virasoro symmetry,SU(2) for the gauge theory) and third order (W3symmetry, SU(3)) differential equations of a polynomial with finite degree.The conformal and W symmetry generate the flow equations in the spectral curve and determine the irregular conformal block, hence the partition function of the Argyres-Douglas theory ala AGT conjecture. 1Introduction Irregular conformal block (ICB) is closely related with Argyres-Douglas type (AD) of N=2 super conformal gauge theory in four dimensions [1].AD type has the non-trivial infrared fixed point on the Coulomb branch and does not allow marginal deformation. Therefore, AD type of gauge theory is considered as a special class of super conformal gauge theory. According to AGT [2], the Nekrasov partition function [3, 4, 5] of the gauge theory is equivalent to the conformal block of Liouville vertex operators in two dimensions. This con- nection is understood using the twisted compactification of the six dimensionalN= (2,0) theory on a punctured Riemann surface [6, 7, 8]. In this context, the Seiberg-Witten curve of the four-dimensional theory is identified with the spectral curve of Hitchin system on the Rie- mann surface with regular punctures. The Hitchin system has simple poles and the residues are associated with the mass parameter of the gauge theory [9, 10]. On the other hand, the AD type theory is characterized in terms of irregular punctures, poles of higher order [11, 12]. Therefore, the irregular puncture is the key point to understand AD type theory. It is noted that irregular punctures appear when the regular conformal block has the collid- ing limit [13, 14]. The colliding limit is a fusion of vertex operators so that multiple moments of Liouville charges of the vertex operators are present. It is like the collection of charges dis- tributed over a small region whose collection is viewed as an idealized system of total charge, dipole, quadrupole and multi-poles. As a consequence, the irregular punctures maintain the conformal symmetry but change the conformal state.Note that a regular puncture on the 1email:hermit1231@sogang.ac.kr 2email:rimpine@sogang.ac.kr 3email:kilar@sogang.ac.kr 1
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