Cohomological gauge theory, quiver matrix models and Donaldson-Thomas theory
arXiv:0803.4188 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.09.024
Abstract
We study the relation between Donaldson-Thomas theory of Calabi-Yau threefolds and a six-dimensional topological Yang-Mills theory. Our main example is the topological U(N) gauge theory on flat space in its Coulomb branch. To evaluate its partition function we use equivariant localization techniques on its noncommutative deformation. As a result the gauge theory localizes on noncommutative instantons which can be classified in terms of N-coloured three-dimensional Young diagrams. We give to these noncommutative instantons a geometrical description in terms of certain stable framed coherent sheaves on projective space by using a higher-dimensional generalization of the ADHM formalism. From this formalism we construct a topological matrix quantum mechanics which computes an index of BPS states and provides an alternative approach to the six-dimensional gauge theory.
arXiv comment65 pages, 1 figure; v2: References added; v3: Definitions of moduli spaces clarified, references added; Final version to be published in Nuclear Physics B
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