The loop-nilpotent cohomological Hall algebra

Abstract

We give an explicit shuffle algebra model for the loop-nilpotent cohomological Hall algebra (CoHA) of a tripled quiver with canonical cubic potential. As consequences, we (1) relate the loop-nilpotent CoHA to the quantized Coulomb branch algebra of the corresponding quiver gauge theory, (2) show that the loop-nilpotent CoHA is supercommutative after specialization at $\hbar=0$, (3) give generators for both the loop-nilpotent CoHA and the full preprojective CoHA, and (4) obtain an explicit characterization of the BPS Lie algebra of the full preprojective CoHA via certain degree and divisibility conditions. This gives a new formula for the Kac polynomials of the quiver in terms of the dimensions of certain vector spaces of polynomials. We also prove a conjecture on the spherical generation of the localized shuffle algebra and show that for ADE quivers, the loop-nilpotent CoHA is the positive half of Drinfeld-Gavarini dual of the Yangian.