Higher Deformation Quantization for Kapustin-Witten Theories
Abstract
We pursue a uniform quantization of all twists of 4-dimensional N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, using the BV formalism, and we explore consequences for factorization algebras of observables. Our central result is the construction of a one-loop exact quantization on for all such twists and for every point in a moduli of vacua. When an action of the group SO(4) can be defined - for instance, for Kapustin and Witten's family of twists - the associated framing anomaly vanishes. It follows that the local observables in such theories can be canonically described by a family of framed algebras; this structure allows one to take the factorization homology of observables on any oriented 4-manifold. In this way, each Kapustin-Witten theory yields a fully extended, oriented 4-dimensional topological field theory \`a la Lurie and Scheimbauer.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2108.13392,
title = {Higher Deformation Quantization for Kapustin-Witten Theories},
author = {Chris Elliott and Owen Gwilliam and Brian R Williams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.13392},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
54 pages, 3 figures. Comments welcome!