Higher-dimensional analogues of Donaldson-Witten theory

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00515-4zbMATH Open0938.81035arXivhep-th/9705138OpenAlexW2007287396WikidataQ124958967 ScholiaQ124958967MaRDI QIDQ1367561FDOQ1367561

Authors: Bernhard Rupp 

Publication date: 24 September 1997

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a Donaldson-Witten type field theory in eight dimensions on manifolds with $Spin(7)$ holonomy. We prove that the stress tensor is BRST exact for metric variations preserving the holonomy and we give the invariants for this class of variations. In six and seven dimensions we propose similar theories on Calabi-Yau threefolds and manifolds of $G_2$ holonomy respectively. We point out that these theories arise by considering supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory defined on such manifolds. The theories are invariant under metric variations preserving the holonomy structure without the need for twisting. This statement is a higher dimensional analogue of the fact that Donaldson-Witten field theory on hyper-K"ahler 4-manifolds is topological without twisting. Higher dimensional analogues of Floer cohomology are briefly outlined. All of these theories arise naturally within the context of string theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9705138

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zbMATH Keywords

manifoldstopological field theoryCalabi Yau threefoldsBRST exact stress tensorhigher dimensional Floer cohomologyholonomy preservation[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=hyper+K%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDhler+4+manifolds&go=Go hyper K��hler 4 manifolds]instanton equationsmetric variationssupersymmetric Yang Mills theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

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