Instantons and Donaldson-Thomas Invariants

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Authors Michele Cirafici, Annamaria Sinkovics, Richard J. Szabo

Publication date 24 November 2008

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1087

zbMATH Keywords

Donaldson-Thomas invariantsnoncommutative field theorytopological quantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Noncommutative geometry methods in quantum field theory (81T75)

Abstract: We review some recent progress in understanding the relation between a six dimensional topological Yang-Mills theory and the enumerative geometry of Calabi-Yau threefolds. The gauge theory localizes on generalized instanton solutions and is conjecturally equivalent to Donaldson-Thomas theory. We evaluate the partition function of the U(N) theory in its Coulomb branch on flat space by employing equivariant localization techniques on its noncommutative deformation. Geometrically this corresponds to a higher dimensional generalization of the ADHM formalism. This formalism can be extended to a generic toric Calabi-Yau.

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