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We show that Coulomb branches of quiver gauge theories of affine type A are Cherkis bow varieties, which have been introduced as ADHM type description of moduli space of instantons on the Taub–NUT space equivariant under a cyclic group action.
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Nakajima, H., Takayama, Y. Cherkis bow varieties and Coulomb branches of quiver gauge theories of affine type A . Sel. Math. New Ser. 23, 2553–2633 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00029-017-0341-7
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