nLab Conformal field theory in four and six dimensions

The article

• Edward Witten,

  Conformal field theory in four and six dimensions,

  in

  Ulrike Tillmann (ed.),

  Topology, Geometry and Quantum Field Theory,

  Cambridge University Press (2002) 405-420

  arXiv:0712.0157

  doi:10.1017/CBO9780511526398.017

disucsses in a simplified setup the compactification of the 6d (2,0)-superconformal QFT on a Riemann surface to 4-dimensional (super) Yang-Mills theory, and how this geometrically explains the S-duality/electric-magnetic duality of this theory.

For related references see at N=2 D=4 super-Yang-Mills theory – References – Construction from 5-branes

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