On the relationship between the Rozansky-Witten and the 3-dimensional Seiberg-Witten invariants (Q700567): Difference between revisions

The authors focus on \(d = 3\), \(N = 4\) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories with gauge group and combine the following facts: The coulomb branch of any \(d = 3\), \(N = 4\) SYM theory is a hyper-Kähler manifold. Topologically twisting the low energy description of this theory, one obtains the perturbative Rozansky-Witten invariants. Topologically twisting the microscopic theory, one obtains a topological field theory with two topological charges, modeling the de-Rham complex and calculations of an Euler characteristic of a gauge theory moduli space. Without mathematically rigorous proofs they describe the two topological field theories which arise on twists of the same physical theory at different energy scales. Using the fact that the topological theory should not care about scaling, they induce the equality of the two types of topological field theories.