Conformal topological Yang-Mills theory and de Sitter holography

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2002/08/055zbMATH Open1226.81123arXivhep-th/0111190OpenAlexW1987258250MaRDI QIDQ648845FDOQ648845

Authors: Paul de Medeiros, C. M. Hull, Bill Spence, José Figueroa-O'Farrill 

Publication date: 29 November 2011

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A new topological conformal field theory in four Euclidean dimensions is constructed from N=4 super Yang-Mills theory by twisting the whole of the conformal group with the whole of the R-symmetry group, resulting in a theory that is conformally invariant and has two conformally invariant BRST operators. A curved space generalisation is found on any Riemannian 4-fold. This formulation has local Weyl invariance and two Weyl-invariant BRST symmetries, with an action and energy-momentum tensor that are BRST-exact. This theory is expected to have a holographic dual in 5-dimensional de Sitter space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0111190

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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• Twisted superalgebras and cohomologies of the \(N=2\) superconformal quantum mechanics
• On the holography of free Yang-Mills
• Black holes, \(q\)-deformed 2d Yang--Mills, and non-perturbative topological strings
• Conformal dimensions from topologically massive quantum field theory
• Topological twisting of conformal supercharges
• On protected defect correlators in 3d \(\mathcal{N} \geq 4\) theories
• AdS/CFT correspondence and topological field theory
• Topological AdS/CFT and the \(\Omega\) deformation
• Unitarity at infinity and topological holography
• Homotopic classification of Yang-Mills vacua taking into account causality
• Infinite chiral symmetry in four dimensions
• Correlators of local operators and 1/8 BPS Wilson loops on \(S^{2}\) from 2d YM and matrix models
• Four twisted differential operators for the \({\mathcal N}=4\) superconformal algebra
• Topological conformal gravity in four dimensions
• Four-point functions with a twist
• \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) super-Yang-Mills on conic space as hologram of STU topological black hole
• Conformal twists, Yang–Baxter σ-models & holographic noncommutativity
• Generating functions for Higgs/Coulomb branch operators from 1d-3d cohomological equivalence

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