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Holonomy twisting

There is Witten's topological twist of standard SUSY QFTs with enough SUSY into Witten-type TQFTs. What is a holonomy twist?
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How to determine R charge?

Ref. 1, page 15, equation (23) defines the $U(1)_V$ and $U(1)_A$ actions as $$e^{i\alpha F_V}: \Phi(x,\theta^{\pm},\bar{\theta}^{\pm}) \rightarrow e^{i\alpha q_V}: \Phi(x,e^{-i\alpha ...
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Defects in 3+1 TFTs/2+1 CFTs

I would like to know of good pedagogic references to learn about the notion of "defects" in TFTs and CFTs. I am specially interested in 3+1 TFTs (.and probably about their relation to 2+1 CFTs..) In ...
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Topological twists of SUSY gauge theory

Consider $N=4$ super-symmetric gauge theory in 4 dimensions with gauge group $G$. As is explained in the beginning of the paper of Kapustin and Witten on geometric Langlands, this theory has 3 ...