The other topological twisting of N=4 Yang-Mills

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DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00389-AzbMATH Open0925.81348arXivhep-th/9506002OpenAlexW3099703881MaRDI QIDQ1898653FDOQ1898653

Neil Marcus

Publication date: 20 September 1995

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

Abstract: We present the alternative topological twisting of N=4 Yang-Mills, in which the path integral is dominated not by instantons, but by flat connections of the COMPLEXIFIED gauge group. The theory is nontrivial on compact orientable four-manifolds with nonpositive Euler number, which are necessarily not simply connected. On such manifolds, one finds a single topological invariant, analogous to the Casson invariant of three-manifolds.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9506002




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