Mathai-Quillen formulation of twisted \(N=4\) supersymmetric gauge theories in four dimensions

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00421-5zbMath0938.81040arXivhep-th/9702106OpenAlexW3105593239MaRDI QIDQ1366577

José M. F. Labastida, Carlos J. Lozano

Publication date: 10 September 1997

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702106

zbMATH Keywords

topological invariantsvacuum expectation valuesfunctional integralnonabelian monopolestopological twist

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

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