Supersymmetrizing 5d instanton operators
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چکیده
We construct a supersymmetric version of instanton operators in fivedimensional Yang-Mills theories. This is possible by considering a five-dimensional generalization of the familiar four-dimensional topologically twisted theory, where the gauge configurations corresponding to instanton operators are supersymmetric.
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