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Bulk Witten Indices from D=10 Yang Mills Integrals

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-05 v2

Abstract

Values for the bulk Witten indices for D=10 Yang-Mills integrals for some regular simple groups of rank 4 and 5 are calculated by employing the BRST deformation technique by Moore, Nekrasov and Shatashvili. The results cannot be reconciled with the double assumption that the number of normalizable ground states is given by certain simple partition functions given by Kac and Smilga as well as that the corresponding boundary term is always negative.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0312262,
  title  = {Bulk Witten Indices from D=10 Yang Mills Integrals},
  author = {Thomas Fischbacher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0312262},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

13 pages, source package contains code to redo calculations. Results added that were missing in the first version due to a (now fixed) compiler bug

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