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Twisted eleven-dimensional supergravity
Surya Raghavendran, Ingmar Saberi, Brian R. Williams
We construct a fully interacting holomorphic/topological theory in eleven dimensions that is defined on products of Calabi-Yau fivefolds with real one-manifolds. The theory describ…
Perspectives on the pure spinor superfield formalism
Richard Eager, Fabian Hahner, Ingmar Saberi +1
In this note, we study, formalize, and generalize the pure spinor superfield formalism from a rather nontraditional perspective. To set the stage, we review the notion of a multipl…
Twisted heterotic/type I duality
Kevin Costello, Brian R. Williams
We formulate a twisted version of the conjectured duality between heterotic and type I string theories. Our formulation relates the chiral part of the heterotic string with a type…
Koszul duality in quantum field theory
Natalie M. Paquette, Brian R. Williams
In this article, we introduce basic aspects of the algebraic notion of Koszul duality for a physics audience. We then review its appearance in the physical problem of coupling QFTs…
Higher Deformation Quantization for Kapustin-Witten Theories
Chris Elliott, Owen Gwilliam, Brian R Williams
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 algebr…
Batalin--Vilkovisky quantization and supersymmetric twists
Pavel Safronov, Brian R. Williams
We show that a family of topological twists of a supersymmetric mechanics with a Kähler target exhibits a Batalin--Vilkovisky quantization. Using this observation we make a general…
Quantization of topological-holomorphic field theories: local aspects
Owen Gwilliam, Eugene Rabinovich, Brian R. Williams
In both mathematics and physics, topological field theories and holomorphic field theories appear naturally, but there are interesting theories that are hybrids -- looking topologi…
Twisting pure spinor superfields, with applications to supergravity
Ingmar Saberi, Brian R. Williams
We study twists of supergravity theories and supersymmetric field theories, using a version of the pure spinor superfield formalism. Our results show that, just as the component fi…