TY - RPRT T1 - Quantum Hitchin Systems via beta-deformed Matrix Models Y1 - 2011 A1 - Giulio Bonelli A1 - Kazunobu Maruyoshi A1 - Alessandro Tanzini AB -

We study the quantization of Hitchin systems in terms of beta-deformations of generalized matrix models related to conformal blocks of Liouville theory on punctured Riemann surfaces. We show that in a suitable limit, corresponding to the Nekrasov-Shatashvili one, the loop equations of the matrix model reproduce the Hamiltonians of the quantum Hitchin system on the sphere and the torus with marked points. The eigenvalues of these Hamiltonians are shown to be the epsilon1-deformation of the chiral observables of the corresponding N=2 four ndimensional gauge theory. Moreover, we find the exact wave-functions in terms of the matrix model representation of the conformal blocks with degenerate field insertions.

PB - SISSA UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4181 N1 - 29 pages; v2. refs. added and typos corrected U1 - 3904 U2 - Physics U3 - Elementary Particle Theory U4 - -1 ER -