On the relationship between the Rozansky-Witten and the 3-dimensional Seiberg-Witten invariants

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2001.V5.N3.A3MaRDI QIDQ700567zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthias Blau, George Thompson

Publication date 22 October 2002

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0006244

zbMATH Keywords

Casson invariantMilnor torsionRozansky-Witten invariantSeiberg-Witten invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

Abstract: The Seiberg-Witten analysis of the low-energy effective action of d=4 N=2 SYM theories reveals the relation between the Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten (SW) monopole invariants. Here we apply analogous reasoning to d=3 N=4 theories and propose a general relationship between Rozansky-Witten (RW) and 3-dimensional Abelian monopole invariants. In particular, we deduce the equality of the SU(2) Casson invariant and the 3-dimensional SW invariant (this includes a special case of the Meng-Taubes theorem relating the SW invariant to Milnor torsion). Since there are only a finite number of basic RW invariants of a given degree, many different topological field theories can be used to represent essentially the same topological invariant. This leads us to advocate using higher rank Abelian gauge theories to shed light on the higher (non-Abelian) RW invariants and we write down candidate higher rank SW equations.

Review text

The authors focus on \(d = 3\), \(N = 4\) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories with gauge group and combine the following facts: The coulomb branch of any \(d = 3\), \(N = 4\) SYM theory is a hyper-Kähler manifold. Topologically twisting the low energy description of this theory, one obtains the perturbative Rozansky-Witten invariants. Topologically twisting the microscopic theory, one obtains a topological field theory with two topological charges, modeling the de-Rham complex and calculations of an Euler characteristic of a gauge theory moduli space. Without mathematically rigorous proofs they describe the two topological field theories which arise on twists of the same physical theory at different energy scales. Using the fact that the topological theory should not care about scaling, they induce the equality of the two types of topological field theories.

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