%0 Report %D 2011 %T D-branes, surface operators, and ADHM quiver representations %A Ugo Bruzzo %A Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu %A M. Yardim %A G. Pan %A Yi Zhang %A Chuang Wu-yen %X 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. %I SISSA %G en %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4133 %1 3873 %2 Mathematics %3 Mathematical Physics %4 -1 %$ Submitted by Maria Pia Calandra (calapia@sissa.it) on 2011-09-15T08:27:03Z\\r\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\r\\n1012.1826v2.pdf: 536824 bytes, checksum: 38cd256a97e7244dc3eaac8073827cc2 (MD5)