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

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2001.V5.N3.A3zbMATH Open1030.57046arXivhep-th/0006244OpenAlexW2963429848MaRDI QIDQ700567FDOQ700567

Authors: Matthias Blau, George Thompson 

Publication date: 22 October 2002

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

Seiberg-Witten invariantCasson invariantMilnor torsionRozansky-Witten invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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