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20242026
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6 papers

hep-th2026

Dynamical Generation of the VY Superpotential in SYM: A Higher-Form Perspective

Wei Gu

We present a semiclassical account of the Veneziano-Yankielowicz (VY) superpotential in four-dimensional super Yang-Mills theory. Motivated by two-dimensional gauged linear s…

math.AG2025

A Nakayama result for the quantum K theory of homogeneous spaces

Wei Gu, Leonardo C. Mihalcea, Eric Sharpe +3

We prove that the ideal of relations in the (equivariant) quantum K ring of a homogeneous space is generated by quantizations of each of the generators of the ideal in the classica…

hep-th2025

On Atiyah-Segal axioms for Witten-type TQFTs

Wei Gu

In this paper, we propose a new definition of the trace-map bordism within the Atiyah-Segal framework for Witten-type TQFTs constructed from the topological twist of mass-gapped th…

hep-th2025

On mixed 't Hooft anomalies of emergent symmetries

Wei Gu, Du Pei, Xingyang Yu

In this paper, we investigate the dynamical constraints imposed on the UV theory when it develops an emergent symmetry in the infrared with mixed 't Hooft anomalies. We demonstrate…

hep-th2025

Schubert defects in Lagrangian Grassmannians

W. Gu, L. Mihalcea, E. Sharpe +3

In this paper, we propose a construction of GLSM defects corresponding to Schubert cycles in Lagrangian Grassmannians, following recent work of Closset-Khlaif on Schubert cycles in…

hep-th2024

Bosonic quantum integrable systems and gauge theories

Wei Gu

In this paper we apply two-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories to directly construct a new Bethe ansatz for the wavefunctions of the q-boson hopping model, and then derive th…