Instantons beyond topological theory. I

DOI10.1017/S1474748011000077zbMATH Open1230.81050arXivhep-th/0610149MaRDI QIDQ3012891FDOQ3012891

Authors: Edward Frenkel, Andrei S. Losev, Nikita Nekrasov 

Publication date: 7 July 2011

Published in: Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Many quantum field theories in one, two and four dimensions possess remarkable limits in which the instantons are present, the anti-instantons are absent, and the perturbative corrections are reduced to one-loop. We analyze the corresponding models as full quantum field theories, beyond their topological sector. We show that the correlation functions of all, not only topological (or BPS), observables may be studied explicitly in these models, and the spectrum may be computed exactly. An interesting feature is that the Hamiltonian is not always diagonalizable, but may have Jordan blocks, which leads to the appearance of logarithms in the correlation functions. We also find that in the models defined on Kahler manifolds the space of states exhibits holomorphic factorization. We conclude that in dimensions two and four our theories are logarithmic conformal field theories.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610149

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zbMATH Keywords

instantonquantum mechanicsMorse theorytempered distributiontopological field theoryEpstein-Glaser regularization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Compact Kähler manifolds: generalizations, classification (32J27) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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