The Coulomb branch formula for rational BPS indices

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Let γ\gamma be a total charge, let γi\gamma_i range over decompositions of it, let gC({γi},z,y)g_{\rm C}(\{\gamma_i\},z,y) be the Coulomb index, and let Ω‾S(γi)\overline{\Omega}_S(\gamma_i) be single-centered rational indices. Define Ωtot\Omega_{\rm tot} by

Ωtot(γ,y)=ΩS(γ,y)+∑γ=∑i=1mmiβiHm({βi,mi},y)∏i=1mΩS(βi,ymi).\Omega_{\rm tot}(\gamma,y)=\Omega_S(\gamma,y)+\sum_{\gamma=\sum_{i=1}^m m_i\beta_i}H_m(\{\beta_i,m_i\},y)\prod_{i=1}^m\Omega_S(\beta_i,y^{m_i}).

The Coulomb branch formula. The rational index is conjectured to be

Ω‾(γ,z,y)=∑γ=∑i=1nγigC({γi},z,y)∣Aut{γi}∣∏i=1n{∑mi∈Zmi∣γiy−1/ymi(ymi−y−mi)Ωtot(γi/mi,ymi)}.\overline{\Omega}(\gamma,z,y)=\sum_{\gamma=\sum_{i=1}^n\gamma_i}\frac{g_{\rm C}(\{\gamma_i\},z,y)}{|{\rm Aut}\{\gamma_i\}|}\prod_{i=1}^n\left\{\sum_{m_i\in\mathbb{Z}\atop m_i\mid\gamma_i}\frac{y-1/y}{m_i(y^{m_i}-y^{-m_i})}\Omega_{\rm tot}(\gamma_i/m_i,y^{m_i})\right\}.

Here Ωtot\Omega_{\rm tot} is determined from the single-centered indices by the preceding formula. The Coulomb branch formula is a conjectural expression for total BPS indices in terms of single-centered data; the source discusses agreement with flow-tree expressions in cases without scaling solutions and differences when oriented loops permit scaling solutions. Its general status remains open in the supplied material.

References

Primary source

Sergei Alexandrov and Boris Pioline, “Attractor flow trees, BPS indices and quivers”, arXiv:1804.06928 (2019).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1606.02002.

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