Hikita–Nakajima conjecture for BFN Coulomb branches

Let Y=TN////χGY=T^*N\mathbin{/\mkern-6mu/\mkern-6mu/\mkern-6mu/}_\chi G be the Higgs branch, with the induced action of F×C×F\times\mathbb{C}^\times, and let A\mathcal{A} be the associated graded BFN algebra. Define its BB-algebra by

B(A):=A(0)/ab:aA(n), bA(n), n>0.B(\mathcal{A}):=\mathcal{A}(0)/\langle ab:a\in\mathcal{A}(-n),\ b\in\mathcal{A}(n),\ n>0\rangle.

The Kirwan map HG~×C×(pt)B(A)H^\bullet_{\widetilde{G}\times\mathbb{C}^\times}(pt)\to B(\mathcal{A}) is compatible with the corresponding map to HF×C×(Y)H^\bullet_{F\times\mathbb{C}^\times}(Y).

Hikita–Nakajima conjecture. There is an algebra isomorphism

HF×C×(Y)B(A)H^\bullet_{F\times\mathbb{C}^\times}(Y)\cong B(\mathcal{A})

compatible with the map from HG~×C×(pt)H^\bullet_{\widetilde{G}\times\mathbb{C}^\times}(pt) to both sides.

This extends conjectures of Hikita and Nakajima and relates equivariant cohomology of the Higgs branch to the degree-zero quotient of the Coulomb-branch algebra. The source notes that the relevant Kirwan maps are often surjective, but gives no resolution of this conjecture.

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Justin Hilburn, Joel Kamnitzer and Alex Weekes, “BFN Springer Theory”, arXiv:2004.14998 (2023).

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