Holonomy groups, complex structures andD=4 topological Yang-Mills theory

Abstract

We study conditions for the existence of extended supersymmetry in topological Yang-Mills theory. These conditions are most conveniently formulated in terms of the holonomy group of the underlying manifold, on which the topological Yang-Mills theory is defined. For irreducible manifolds we find that extended supersymmetries are in 1–1 correspondence with covariantly constant complex structures. Therefore, the topological Yang-Mills theory on any Kähler manifold possesses one additional supersymmetry and on any hyper Kähler manifold there are three additional supersymmetries. The Donaldson map, which plays a crucial role in the construction of the topological invariants, is generalized for Kähler manifolds, thus providing candidates for new invariants of complex manifolds.