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Higher Deformation Quantization for Kapustin-Witten Theories

Mathematical Physics 2021-08-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Quantum Algebra Representation Theory

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 R4\mathbb R^4 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 E4\mathbb E_4 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.

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@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}
}

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54 pages, 3 figures. Comments welcome!

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