String theory and the Donaldson polynomial

DOI10.1007/BF02096766zbMATH Open0772.57026arXivhep-th/9108020WikidataQ125939271 ScholiaQ125939271MaRDI QIDQ1208024FDOQ1208024

Jeffrey Harvey, Andrew Strominger

Publication date: 16 May 1993

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is shown that the scattering of spacetime axions with fivebrane solitons of heterotic string theory at zero momentum is proportional to the Donaldson polynomial.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9108020

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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• Topological quantum field theory
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• A low-energy limit of Yang-Mills theory on de Sitter space
• Dual infrared limits of 6d \(\mathcal{N} = (2, 0)\) theory
• The universal geometry of heterotic vacua
• Low energy dynamics of self-dual \(A_1\) strings
• Infinite conformal algebras in supersymmetric theories on four-manifolds
• The \(u\)-plane integral, mock modularity and enumerative geometry
• String theory and the Kauffman polynomial
• M5-branes on \(S^2\times M_{4}\): Nahm's equations and 4d topological sigma-models
• Lectures on \(2\)D Yang-Mills theory, equivariant cohomology and topological field theories
• Skyrme-Faddeev model from 5d super-Yang-Mills
• Topological Yang-Mills theory with two fermionic charges. A superfield approach on Kähler manifolds
• Skyrme model from 6d \(\mathcal{N} = (2, 0)\) theory
• Non-abelian sigma models from Yang-Mills theory compactified on a circle
• Five-dimensional gauge theories and relativistic integrable systems
• Topological reduction of \(4\)D SYM to \(2\)D\(\sigma\)-models
• Skyrme and Faddeev models in the low-energy limit of 4D Yang-Mills-Higgs theories
• Scattering of macroscopic heterotic strings.
• Non-abelian monopoles on four-manifolds
• Dyon-monopole bound states, self-dual harmonic forms on the multi-monopole moduli space, and \(\text{SL}(2, \mathbb Z)\) invariance in string theory.
• Low-energy dynamics of \(N=2\) supersymmetric monopoles.
• Reduction, Donaldson invariants and quantum cohomology ring

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