\(N=2\) topological Yang-Mills theories and Donaldson's polynomials (Q1924396)

In this paper the authors re-examine \(N = 2\) topological and holomorphic Yang-Mills theories on a simply connected compact Kähler surface with \(p_g \geq 1\), which lead to the different \(N = 2\) (global) supersymmetry transformation laws for some auxiliary fields. This allows them to realize the non-algebraic part of Donaldson's polynomials as well as the algebraic part. They calculate Donaldson's polynomial invariants on \(H^{2,0}(X,\mathbb{Z}) \oplus H^{0,2}(X,\mathbb{Z})\). The basic supersymmetry transformation laws of the \(N = 1\) and the \(N = 2\) topological Yang-Mills theories are compared in terms of the de Rham and Dolbeault models of the equivariant cohomology. It is shown that the Dolbeault equivariant cohomology is not isomorphic to the de Rham equivariant cohomology.