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Twisted supersymmetric 5D Yang-Mills theory and contact geometry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-09-12 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We extend the localization calculation of the 3D Chern-Simons partition function over Seifert manifolds to an analogous calculation in five dimensions. We construct a twisted version of N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory defined on a circle bundle over a four dimensional symplectic manifold. The notion of contact geometry plays a crucial role in the construction and we suggest a generalization of the instanton equations to five dimensional contact manifolds. Our main result is a calculation of the full perturbative partition function on a five sphere for the twisted supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with different Chern-Simons couplings. The final answer is given in terms of a matrix model. Our construction admits generalizations to higher dimensional contact manifolds. This work is inspired by the work of Baulieu-Losev-Nekrasov from the mid 90's, and in a way it is covariantization of their ideas for a contact manifold.

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@article{arxiv.1202.1956,
  title  = {Twisted supersymmetric 5D Yang-Mills theory and contact geometry},
  author = {Johan Kallen and Maxim Zabzine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.1956},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

28 pages; v2: minor mistake corrected; v3: matches published version