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On the renormalization and quantization of topological-holomorphic field theories

Mathematical Physics 2026-04-14 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

Topological field theories and holomorphic field theories naturally appear in both mathematics and physics. However, there exist intriguing hybrid theories that are topological in some directions and holomorphic in others, such as twists of supersymmetric field theories or Costello's 4-dimensional Chern-Simons theory. In this paper, we rigorously prove the ultraviolet (UV) finiteness for such hybrid theories on the model manifold Rd×Cd\mathbb{R}^{d'} \times \mathbb{C}^d, and present two significant vanishing results regarding anomalies: in the case d=1d'=1, the odd-loop obstructions to quantization on Rd×Cd\mathbb{R}^{d'} \times \mathbb{C}^d vanish; in the case d>1d'>1, all obstructions disappear, allowing us to define a factorization algebra structure for quantum observables. Previous versions circulated under the title "Factorization algebras from topological-holomorphic field theories".

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@article{arxiv.2407.08667,
  title  = {On the renormalization and quantization of topological-holomorphic field theories},
  author = {Minghao Wang and Brian R. Williams},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.08667},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

53 pages, no figures. An error in the proof has been fixed. Corrected several typos. Title changed from "Factorization algebras from topological-holomorphic field theories" to match the accepted journal version. Comments welcome