Hikita–Nakajima conjecture for BFN Coulomb branches

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Let Y=T∗N////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:a∈A(−n), b∈A(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.

References

Primary source

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

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