Aspects of \(N_T\geqslant 2\) topological gauge theories and D-branes

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00161-2zbMath0996.58504arXivhep-th/9612143MaRDI QIDQ678313

George Thompson, Matthias Blau

Publication date: 16 April 1997

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9612143

zbMATH Keywords

holomorphic curvesequivariant cohomologyDirichlet two brane instantonsEuler number sumsN=4 3D Yang Mills theoryN=4 4D Yang Mills theoryworld volume theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29)

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