Quotient quiver subtraction

Abstract

We develop the diagrammatic technique of quiver subtraction to facilitate the identification and evaluation of the $\mathrm{SU}\left(n\right)$ hyper-Kähler quotient (HKQ) of the Coulomb branch of a 3d $N=4$ unitary quiver theory. The target quivers are drawn from a wide range of theories, typically classified as “good” or “ugly”, which satisfy identified selection criteria. Our subtraction procedure uses quotient quivers that are “bad”, differing thereby from quiver subtractions based on Kraft-Procesi transitions. The simple diagrammatic procedure identifies one or more resultant quivers, the union of whose Coulomb branches corresponds to the desired HKQ. Examples include quivers whose Coulomb branches are moduli spaces of free fields, closures of nilpotent orbits of classical and exceptional type, and slices in the affine Grassmanian. We calculate the Hilbert Series and Highest Weight Generating functions for HKQ examples of low rank. For certain families of quivers, we are able to conjecture HWGs for arbitrary rank. We examine the commutation relations between quotient quiver subtraction and other diagrammatic techniques, such as Kraft-Procesi transitions, quiver folding, and discrete quotients.