Conjecture on pole cancellation in the Nekrasov instanton sum with adjoint matter

Let p,qp,q be positive coprime integers, let b2=p/qb^2=p/q, and let Y\boldsymbol{Y} range over tuples of partitions with corresponding terms ZYZ_{\vec{Y}}. Let ϵ1\epsilon_1 and ϵ2\epsilon_2 be the equivariant parameters, and let mm be the mass parameter. Pole-cancellation conjecture. The value b2=p/qb^2=p/q is a removable singularity (or smooth point) of all terms ZYZ_{\vec{Y}} if mm or ϵ1+ϵ2m\epsilon_1+\epsilon_2-m is in

{kϵ10kq/p}{kϵ20kp/q}.\{k\epsilon_1\mid 0\leq k\leq \lceil q/p\rceil\}\cup\{k\epsilon_2\mid 0\leq k\leq \lceil p/q\rceil\}.

For other values of mm, b2=p/qb^2=p/q is a pole of at least one term ZYZ_{\vec{Y}}. This conjecture seeks a complete characterization of the mass values for which all instanton terms avoid poles at positive rational b2b^2; the preceding examples motivate the stated intersection condition, while the general assertion is left unresolved in the source.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Bruno Le Floch, “Convergence of Nekrasov instanton sum with adjoint matter”, arXiv:2602.19425 (2026).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.