Conformal topological Yang-Mills theory and de Sitter holography
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
A new topological conformal field theory in four Euclidean dimensions is constructed from N=4 super Yang-Mills theory by twisting the whole of the conformal group with the whole of the R-symmetry group, resulting in a theory that is conformally invariant and has two conformally invariant BRST operators. A curved space generalisation is found on any Riemannian 4-fold. This formulation has local Weyl invariance and two Weyl-invariant BRST symmetries, with an action and energy-momentum tensor that are BRST-exact. This theory is expected to have a holographic dual in 5-dimensional de Sitter space.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0111190,
title = {Conformal topological Yang-Mills theory and de Sitter holography},
author = {Paul de Medeiros and Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill and Christopher Hull and Bill Spence},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0111190},
year = {2009}
}
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34 pages, AMSTex, Reference added