Geometric Langlands from six dimensions

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zbMATH Open1216.81129arXiv0905.2720MaRDI QIDQ3582283FDOQ3582283


Authors: Edward Witten Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 2 September 2010

Abstract: Geometric Langlands duality is usually formulated as a statement about Riemann surfaces, but it can be naturally understood as a consequence of electric-magnetic duality of four-dimensional gauge theory. This duality in turn is naturally understood as a consequence of the existence of a certain exotic supersymmetric conformal field theory in six dimensions. The same six-dimensional theory also gives a useful framework for understanding some recent mathematical results involving a counterpart of geometric Langlands duality for complex surfaces. (This article is based on a lecture at the Raoul Bott celebration, Montreal, June 2008.)


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.2720




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