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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 on a 4-dimensional manifold of the form , where is a Riemann surface, possibly with boundary and is a Riemann surface of genus . Its S-duality is supposed to encode, as a special case, geometric Langlands duality for the Riemann surface .
Upon compactification on (i.e. is taken to be much smaller than ) down to 2d the resulting effective field theory on reproduces, at certain parameters, the A-model and the B-model topological string theory, whose target as a sigma model is the Hitchin moduli space , where is the gauge group of the theory.
The Hitchin moduli space is a hyperkähler manifold. In complex structure it can be seen as the moduli space of Higgs bundles on , and in complex structures and it can be seen as the moduli space of -local systems on . This is a form of nonabelian Hodge theory.
S-duality manifests as mirror symmetry between and , where is the Langlands dual group of . It exchanges B-branes on in complex structure with A-branes on with complex structure . It also exchanges Wilson loop operators and 't Hooft operators (which correspond to Hecke correspondences).
The connection to the geometric Langlands correspondence may now be made more explicit as follows. We start with a zerobrane (a B-brane) on in complex structure , which is an eigenbrane for the Wilson loop operators, corresponding to a local system on . S-duality gives us an A-brane on in complex structure , which is an eigenbrane for the ‘t Hooft operators. Now we perform a hyperkahler rotation and consider as an A-brane on , in complex structure . Let be the canonical isotropic brane on . The sheafification of gives us a D-module for the sheaf of differential operators given by the sheafification of (see also the related topic of quantization via the A-model). The resulting D-module is expected to be the Hecke eigensheaf predicted by the geometric Langlands correspondence.
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
Anton Kapustin, Langlands Duality and Topological Field Theory (2007) (pdf)
Edward Frenkel, Gauge Theory and Langlands Duality (2009) (arXiv:0906.2747)
Edward Witten, Mirror Symmetry, Hitchin’s Equations, and Langlands Duality (2009) (arXiv:0802.0999)
The link between mirror symmetry and geometric Langlands was explored in the earlier paper
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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