Mirror Manifolds and Topological Field Theory：（镜导管和拓扑场论）.pdfVIP

hep-th/9812012, IASSNS-HEP-98-96 AdS/CFT Correspondence 9 And Topological Field Theory 9 9 1 n a J Edward Witten 4 2 School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study 2 Olden Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA v 2 1 0 In N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory on a four-manifold M , one can specify a discrete 2 1 2 magnetic flux valued in H (M, Z ). This flux is encoded in the AdS/CFT correspondence 8 N 9 in terms of a five-dimensional topological field theory with Chern-Simons action. A similar / h t topological field theory in seven dimensions governs the space of “conformal blocks” of the - p six-dimensional (0, 2) conformal field theory. e h : v i X r a December, 1998 1. Introduction 4 The AdS/CFT correspondence [1] relates N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory on S , with 5 gauge group SU (N ), to Type IIB superstring theory on AdS5 × S , with N units of five- 5 form flux on S . The correspondence expresses gauge theory correlation functions in terms of the dependence of the string theory on the behavior near the conformal boundary of AdS5 [2,3]. What happens if we replace S4 with a more general four-dimensional spin manifold M ? (M must be spin since the N = 4 theory contains spinor fields. In addition, M must be endowed with a metric that – after a suitable conformal rescaling – has positive scalar 1 curvatur