Global variants of $ \mathcal{N} $ = 1* theories and Calogero-Moser systems

Global variants of four-dimensional gauge theories are specified by their spectrum of genuine Wilson-’t Hooft line operators. The choice of global variant has significant consequences when spacetime is taken to be ℝ ³ × S ¹. We focus on $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 1^* theories, which are closely connected to twisted elliptic Calogero-Moser systems. We establish, on general grounds, how this gauge-theoretic topological data manifests itself on the integrable system side by introducing a notion of global variants for complex many-body integrable systems associated with Lie algebras. Focusing on $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 1^* theories of type A and B ₂, we elucidate the implications for the structure of gapped vacua, the emergent (generalized) symmetries realized in each vacuum, and the action of spontaneously broken modular invariance.