Three-manifold topology and the Donaldson-Witten partition function

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00105-4zbMath0952.58021arXivhep-th/9811214OpenAlexW1992679684MaRDI QIDQ1572080

Marcos Mariño, Gregory W. Moore

Publication date: 12 July 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9811214

zbMATH Keywords

partition functionSeiberg-Witten invariantstopological invariantsfour-dimensional Donaldson invariantsReidemeister-Milnor torsion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Partial differential equations on manifolds; differential operators (58J99) Spaces and manifolds of mappings (including nonlinear versions of 46Exx) (58D99)

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