Higher Deformation Quantization for Kapustin-Witten Theories

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Authors Chris Elliott, Owen Gwilliam, Brian R. Williams

Publication date 30 August 2021

Abstract: We pursue a uniform quantization of all twists of 4-dimensional N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, using the BV formalism, and we explore consequences for factorization algebras of observables. Our central result is the construction of a one-loop exact quantization on $mathbb{R}^4$ for all such twists and for every point in a moduli of vacua. When an action of the group SO(4) can be defined - for instance, for Kapustin and Witten's family of twists - the associated framing anomaly vanishes. It follows that the local observables in such theories can be canonically described by a family of framed $mathbb{E}_4$ algebras; this structure allows one to take the factorization homology of observables on any oriented 4-manifold. In this way, each Kapustin-Witten theory yields a fully extended, oriented 4-dimensional topological field theory `a la Lurie and Scheimbauer.

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