Gauge dependence in topological gauge theories
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✦ hep-th
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gaugetopologicaldependencegauge-fixingtheoriesanalyzeanomalousboundary
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We parametrize the gauge-fixing freedom in choosing the Lagrangian of a topological gauge theory. We compute the gauge-fixing dependence of correlators of equivariant operators when the compactified moduli space has a non-empty boundary and verify that only a subset of these has a gauge independent meaning. We analyze in detail a simple example of such anomalous topological theories, 4D topological Yang-Mills on the four-sphere and instanton number k=1.
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