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The Kapustin-Witten TQFT is the 4d TQFT obtained by topological twisting from N=4 D=4 super Yang-Mills theory. Its S-duality is supposed to encode, as a special case, geometric Langlands duality.
Upon compactification down to 2d it reproduces, at certain parameters, the A-model and the B-model.
gauge theory induced via AdS-CFT correspondence
M-theory perspective via AdS7-CFT6 | F-theory perspective |
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11d supergravity/M-theory | |
Kaluza-Klein compactification on | compactificationon elliptic fibration followed by T-duality |
7-dimensional supergravity | |
topological sector | |
7-dimensional Chern-Simons theory | |
AdS7-CFT6 holographic duality | |
6d (2,0)-superconformal QFT on the M5-brane with conformal invariance | M5-brane worldvolume theory |
KK-compactification on Riemann surface | double dimensional reduction on M-theory/F-theory elliptic fibration |
N=2 D=4 super Yang-Mills theory with Montonen-Olive S-duality invariance; AGT correspondence | D3-brane worldvolume theory with type IIB S-duality |
topological twist | |
topologically twisted N=2 D=4 super Yang-Mills theory | |
KK-compactification on Riemann surface | |
A-model on , Donaldson theory |
The TQFT was introduced in
Reviews include
The 0-1-2 extended QFT version of -twisted N=4 D=4 super Yang-Mills theory is considered in
A discussion formalized in BV quantization of factorization algebras is in
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