Instanton counting on blowup. I: 4-dimensional pure gauge theory

DOI10.1007/s00222-005-0444-1zbMath1100.14009arXivmath/0306198MaRDI QIDQ2574961

Publication date: 5 December 2005

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306198

zbMATH Keywords

Uhlenbeck compactification; Young diagram; Hilbert series; Grothendieck group; Borel-Moore homology; Hilbert scheme of points; Whitham hierarchy; blowup equation; equivariant $K$-Theory; Hirota differential; localisation theorem; super-symmetric Yang-Mills theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T60: Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics

81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory

57R57: Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds

14J80: Topology of surfaces (Donaldson polynomials, Seiberg-Witten invariants)

14D21: Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory)

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