Seiberg-Witten Geometry of Four-Dimensional $\mathcal N=2$ Quiver Gauge Theories

Abstract

Seiberg-Witten geometry of mass deformed $\mathcal N=2$ superconformal ADE quiver gauge theories in four dimensions is determined. We solve the limit shape equations derived from the gauge theory and identify the space $\mathfrak M$ of vacua of the theory with the moduli space of the genus zero holomorphic (quasi)maps to the moduli space ${\rm Bun}_{\mathbf G} (\mathcal E)$ of holomorphic $G^{\mathbb C}$-bundles on a (possibly degenerate) elliptic curve $\mathcal E$ defined in terms of the microscopic gauge couplings, for the corresponding simple ADE Lie group $G$. The integrable systems $\mathfrak P$ underlying the special geometry of $\mathfrak M$ are identified. The moduli spaces of framed $G$-instantons on ${\mathbb R}^{2} \times {\mathbb T}^{2}$, of $G$-monopoles with singularities on ${\mathbb R}^{2} \times {\mathbb S}^{1}$, the Hitchin systems on curves with punctures, as well as various spin chains play an important role in our story. We also comment on the higher-dimensional theories.