The partition bundle of type A_N-1 (2,0) theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2011)090zbMATH Open1250.81096arXiv1012.4299MaRDI QIDQ715573FDOQ715573

Måns Henningson

Publication date: 29 October 2012

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

Abstract: Six-dimensional (2, 0) theory can be defined on a large class of six-manifolds endowed with some additional topological and geometric data (i.e. an orientation, a spin structure, a conformal structure, and an R-symmetry bundle with connection). We discuss the nature of the object that generalizes the partition function of a more conventional quantum theory. This object takes its values in a certain complex vector space, which fits together into the total space of a complex vector bundle (the `partition bundle') as the data on the six-manifold is varied in its infinite-dimensional parameter space. In this context, an important role is played by the middle-dimensional intermediate Jacobian of the six-manifold endowed with some additional data (i.e. a symplectic structure, a quadratic form, and a complex structure). We define a certain hermitian vector bundle over this finite-dimensional parameter space. The partition bundle is then given by the pullback of the latter bundle by the map from the parameter space related to the six-manifold to the parameter space related to the intermediate Jacobian.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.4299

zbMATH Keywords

middle-dimensional intermediate Jacobiansix-dimensional \((2,0)\) theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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