Donaldson invariants of product ruled surfaces and two-dimensional gauge theories
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Donaldson invariants of product ruled surfaces and two-dimensional gauge theories
zbMATH Open document ID: 0983.57023
author: Carlos Lozano
author: M. Mariño
published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics
publication date: 2002-01-27T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9907165
review text: \textit{G. Moore} and \textit{E. Witten} in [Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 1, No. 2, 298-387 (1997; Zbl 0899.57021)] showed some unexpected perspectives of Donaldson invariants from the physics approach. The relation between Donaldson invariants and Seiberg-Witten invariants is explored by the \(u\)-plane integral. The \(u\)-plane integration technique can be extended to obtain Donaldson invariants for non-simply connected 4-manifolds and general wall-crossing formulae. For a smooth 4-manifold \(X\) with \(b_1(X)\) even and \(b^+_2(X) = 1\) (for example \(X = \Sigma_g \times S^2\), where \(\Sigma_g\) is a Riemann surface of genus \(g\)), let \(\Omega\) be a symplectic 2-form on the Jacobian torus \(J(X)\) of \(X\). Then the \(u\)-plane integral is given by \[ Z_u = - 4 \pi i \int_{{\Gamma}^0(4)\setminus H}\frac{dx dy}{y^{1/2}} \int_{J(X)} h_{\infty} f_{\infty} \Psi(S) \cdot \frac{\Omega^{b_1/2}}{(b_1/2)!} \] where \(x+iy\) is a coordinate of the upper half-plane \(H\), \({\Gamma}^0(4)\) is a principal congruence subgroup of level \(4\), \(h_{\infty} = \theta_2 \theta_3/2\) with \(\theta_i\) Jacobi theta functions, \(f_{\infty}\) is a differential form on \(J(X)\) (almost holomorphic modular form) and \(\Psi(S)\) is a Siegel-Narain theta function. The integral \(Z_u\) has discontinuous variation at the cusps (located at \(\tau = i \infty, \tau = 0, \tau = 2\)) of \({\Gamma}^0(4)\setminus H\). In Moore and Witten's paper, the authors showed that the discontinuous variation of \(Z_u\) at \(\tau = 0\) and \(\tau = 2\) (for Donaldson invariant contribution) cancel the contribution to wall-crossing from \(\tau = i \infty \) (for Seiberg-Witten invariants). The main result is \(Z_u = Z_D - Z_{SW}\) as the \(u\)-plane integral measures the difference of the contribution from \(\tau = 0\) and \(\tau = 2\) and the contribution from \(\tau = i \infty \). The index calculation from the heat kernel can be expressed as a contribution at \(t = 0\) and a contribution at \(t = \infty\) fr…
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57R57
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53D99
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57R99
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57N13
zbMATH DE Number: 1695543
zbMATH Keywords: Donaldson invariant
zbMATH Keywords: Seiberg-Witten invariant
zbMATH Keywords: \(u\)-plane integral
zbMATH Keywords: Verlinde formula
zbMATH Keywords: interesection pairing
zbMATH Keywords: Fukaya-Floer cohomology
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W3105715673
arXiv ID: hep-th/9907165
DOI: 10.1007/S002200100442
reviewed by: Weiping Li
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