Instanton counting on blowup. I: 4-dimensional pure gauge theory

DOI10.1007/s00222-005-0444-1zbMath1100.14009arXivmath/0306198OpenAlexW3126044493MaRDI QIDQ2574961

Publication date: 5 December 2005

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306198

zbMATH Keywords

Uhlenbeck compactification Young diagram Hilbert series Grothendieck group Borel-Moore homology Hilbert scheme of points Whitham hierarchy blowup equation equivariant $K$-Theory Hirota differential localisation theorem super-symmetric Yang-Mills theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Topology of surfaces (Donaldson polynomials, Seiberg-Witten invariants) (14J80) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21)

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