OBSERVABLES IN TOPOLOGICAL YANG–MILLS THEORIES

DOI10.1142/S0217751X0401777XzbMATH Open1080.81063arXivhep-th/0303053OpenAlexW3099669079MaRDI QIDQ3370290FDOQ3370290

François Gieres, J. L. Boldo, Olivier Piguet, Clisthenis P. Constantinidis, Matthieu Lefrançois

Publication date: 7 February 2006

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using topological Yang-Mills theory as example, we discuss the definition and determination of observables in topological field theories (of Witten-type) within the superspace formulation proposed by Horne. This approach to the equivariant cohomology leads to a set of bi-descent equations involving the BRST and supersymmetry operators as well as the exterior derivative. This allows us to determine superspace expressions for all observables, and thereby to recover the Donaldson-Witten polynomials when choosing a Wess-Zumino-type gauge.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0303053

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zbMATH Keywords

observablestopological field theoryBRST

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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• Quantum field theory and the Jones polynomial
• Local BRST cohomology in gauge theories
• Topological Yang-Mills symmetry
• Gauge and topological symmetries in the bulk quantization of gauge theories

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