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Notices of the International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians· 2018Q2

Gauge Theory And Integrability, I

Kevin Costello, Edward Witten, Masahito Yamazaki

Short summary

Four-dimensional gauge theory systematically deduces solutions to the Yang-Baxter equation, including rational, trigonometric, and elliptic forms, via explicit Feynman diagram computations.

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Key points

  • Four-dimensional gauge theory is shown to systematically generate solutions to the Yang-Baxter equation.
  • Explicit computations via Feynman diagrams yield leading contributions to the R-matrix and operator product expansions.
  • The framework explains the origin of rational, trigonometric, and elliptic solutions.
  • A generalization, the dynamical Yang-Baxter equation, is also incorporated.

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Abstract

Several years ago, it was proposed that the usual solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation associated to Lie groups can be deduced in a systematic way from four-dimensional gauge theory. In the present paper, we extend this picture, fill in many details, and present the arguments in a concrete and down-to-earth way. Many interesting effects, including the leading nontrivial contributions to the $R$-matrix, the operator product expansion of line operators, the framing anomaly, and the quantum deformation that leads from $\mathfrak{g}[[z]]$ to the Yangian, are computed explicitly via Feynman diagrams. We explain how rational, trigonometric, and elliptic solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation arise in this framework, along with a generalization that is known as the dynamical Yang-Baxter equation.

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Field: Algebra and Number Theory

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