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Twists of Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory in Topological String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-06-24 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We show that every twist of pure supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge group GL(N) can be realized as an open-string field theory in topological string theory. Our approach reinterprets twists of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory as generalized Chern-Simons theories, and identifies topological string backgrounds that produce the corresponding Chern-Simons theories.

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@article{arxiv.2502.06647,
  title  = {Twists of Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory in Topological String Theory},
  author = {Philsang Yoo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.06647},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

24 pages; typo fixed; exposition clarified