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arxiv: hep-th/0610159 · v3 · submitted 2006-10-13 · ✦ hep-th

Topological twisting of conformal supercharges

classification ✦ hep-th
keywords conformalsuperchargestopologicalconetheoryunbrokenbasebreaks
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Putting a twisted version of N=4 super Yang-Mills on a curved four-dimensional manifold generically breaks all conformal supersymmetries. In the special case where the four-manifold is a cone, we show that exactly two conformal supercharges remain unbroken. We construct an off-shell formulation of the theory such that the two unbroken conformal supercharges combine into a family of topological charges parameterized by CP^1. The resulting theory is topological in the sense that it is independent of the metric on the three-dimensional base of the cone.

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