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Algebraic Nahm equations, considered in the paper, are polynomial equations, governing the q → 1 limit of the q-hypergeometric Nahm sums. They make an appearance in various fields: hyperbolic geometry, knot theory, quiver representation theory, topological strings and conformal field theory. In this paper we focus primarily on Nahm sums and Nahm equations that arise in relation with symmetric quivers. For a large class of them, we prove that quiver A-polynomials — specialized resultants of the Nahm equations, are tempered (the so-called K-theoretic condition). This implies that they are quantizable. Moreover, we find that their face polynomials obey a remarkable combinatorial pattern. We use the machinery of initial forms and mixed polyhedral decompositions to investigate the edges of the Newton polytope. We show that this condition holds for the diagonal quivers with adjacency matrix C = diag(α, α, . . . , α), α ≥ 2, and provide several checks for non-diagonal quivers. Our conjecture is that the K-theoretic condition holds for all symmetric quivers.
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Noshchenko, D. Combinatorics of Nahm sums, quiver resultants and the K-theoretic condition. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 236 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2021)236
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