Holomorphic Chern-Simons theory and lambda models: PCM case

TL;DR

This paper explores how a four-dimensional holomorphic Chern-Simons theory can be reduced to describe the integrable structure of the lambda deformed Principal Chiral Model, revealing a localization mechanism at spectral poles.

Contribution

It explicitly demonstrates the symplectic reduction of holomorphic Chern-Simons theory for the lambda PCM and connects classical integrability to spectral space data.

Findings

Symplectic reduction acts as a localization at spectral poles.

Classical integrability is reconstructed from phase space data.

Reduction simplifies the description of the lambda PCM.

Abstract

In this note we consider the symplectic reduction of a four-dimensional holomorphic Chern-Simons theory recently introduced in arXiv:1908.02289 for describing integrable field theories. We work out explicitly the case of the lambda deformed Principal Chiral Model (PCM) and show that the symplectic reduction works as a localization mechanism. The reduced Chern-Simons theory restricts to the set of poles of the twist function underlying the theory, where the known classical integrability of the lambda deformed PCM can be reconstructed from the phase space data associated to this set of points in the spectral space.