Aspects of N_T 2 topological gauge theories and D-branes
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Publication:678313
DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00161-2zbMATH Open0996.58504arXivhep-th/9612143MaRDI QIDQ678313FDOQ678313
Authors: Matthias Blau, George Thompson 
Publication date: 16 April 1997
Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We comment on various aspects of topological gauge theories possessing N_{T}geq 2 topological symmetry: (1) We show that the construction of Vafa-Witten and Dijkgraaf-Moore of `balanced' topological field theories is equivalent to an earlier construction in terms of N_{T}=2 superfields inspired by Susy QM. (2) We explain the relation between topological field theories calculating signed and unsigned sums of Euler numbers of moduli spaces. (3) We show that the topological twist of N=4 d=4 Yang-Mills theory recently constructed by Marcus is formally a deformation of four-dimensional super-BF theory. (4) We construct a novel N_{T}=2 topological twist of N=4 d=3 Yang-Mills theory, a `mirror' of the Casson invariant model, with some unusual features. (5) We give a complete classification of the topological twists of N=8 d=3 Yang-Mills theory and show that they are realised as world-volume theories of Dirichlet two-brane instantons wrapping supersymmetric three-cycles of Calabi-Yau three-folds and G_{2}-holonomy Joyce manifolds. (6) We describe the topological gauge theories associated to D-string instantons on holomorphic curves in K3s and Calabi-Yau 3-folds.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9612143
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