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arxiv: 2108.13392 · v1 · pith:K7WPVCPFnew · submitted 2021-08-30 · 🧮 math-ph · hep-th· math.MP· math.QA· math.RT

Higher Deformation Quantization for Kapustin-Witten Theories

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keywords observablesquantizationtheorytwistsalgebrasdimensionalfactorizationfamily
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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 $\mathbb R^4$ 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 $\mathbb E_4$ 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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