TY - RPRT T1 - D-branes, surface operators, and ADHM quiver representations Y1 - 2011 A1 - Ugo Bruzzo A1 - Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu A1 - M. Yardim A1 - G. Pan A1 - Yi Zhang A1 - Chuang Wu-yen AB - 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. PB - SISSA UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4133 N1 - 45 pages, v2: minor corrections U1 - 3873 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics U4 - -1 ER -