Instantons beyond topological theory. I

DOI10.1017/S1474748011000077zbMath1230.81050arXivhep-th/0610149MaRDI QIDQ3012891

Nikita A. Nekrasov, Edward V. Frenkel', Andrei S. Losev

Publication date: 7 July 2011

Published in: Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610149

zbMATH Keywords

Morse theorytopological field theoryinstantonquantum mechanicstempered distributionEpstein-Glaser regularization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Compact Kähler manifolds: generalizations, classification (32J27) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21)

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