Chern-Simons-Rozansky-Witten topological field theory

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DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.07.006zbMATH Open1196.81211arXiv0904.1447OpenAlexW2073961031MaRDI QIDQ1960132FDOQ1960132


Authors: Anton Kapustin, N. Saulina Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 12 October 2010

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

Abstract: We construct and study a new topological field theory in three dimensions. It is a hybrid between Chern-Simons and Rozansky-Witten theory and can be regarded as a topologically-twisted version of the N=4 d=3 supersymmetric gauge theory recently discovered by Gaiotto and Witten. The model depends on a gauge group G and a hyper-Kahler manifold X with a tri-holomorphic action of G. In the case when X is an affine space, we show that the model is equivalent to Chern-Simons theory whose gauge group is a supergroup. This explains the role of Lie superalgebras in the construction of Gaiotto and Witten. For general X, our model appears to be new. We describe some of its properties, focusing on the case when G is simple and X is the cotangent bundle of the flag variety of G. In particular, we show that Wilson loops are labeled by objects of a certain category which is a quantum deformation of the equivariant derived category of coherent sheaves on X.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1447




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