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A Strong Coupling Test of S-Duality

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arxiv hep-th/9408074 v2 pith:3W7WIP7N submitted 1994-08-12 hep-th

Cumrun Vafa , Edward Witten This is my paper · ORCID
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By studying the partition function of $N=4$ topologically twisted supersymmetric Yang-Mills on four-manifolds, we make an exact strong coupling test of the Montonen-Olive strong-weak duality conjecture. Unexpected and exciting links are found with two-dimensional rational conformal field theory.

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