@article {2011, title = {D-branes, surface operators, and ADHM quiver representations}, number = {SISSA;01/2011/FM}, year = {2011}, note = {45 pages, v2: minor corrections}, institution = {SISSA}, abstract = {A supersymmetric quantum mechanical model is constructed for BPS states bound to surface operators in five dimensional SU(r) gauge theories using D-brane engineering. This model represents the effective action of a certain D2-brane configuration, and is naturally obtained by dimensional reduction of a quiver $(0,2)$ gauged linear sigma model. In a special stability chamber, the resulting moduli space of quiver representations is shown to be smooth and isomorphic to a moduli space of framed quotients on the projective plane. A precise conjecture relating a K-theoretic partition function of this moduli space to refined open string invariants of toric lagrangian branes is formulated for conifold and local P^1 x P^1 geometries.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4133}, author = {Ugo Bruzzo and Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu and M. Yardim and G. Pan and Yi Zhang and Chuang Wu-yen} }