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Herein, we consider a topologically twisted version of maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in five dimensions which was introduced by Witten in 2011. We consider this theory on a five manifold of the form M 4 × I for M 4 an oriented Riemannian four manifold. The complete and unique action of the theory in bulk is written down and is shown to be invariant under two scalar supersymmetries.
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Anderson, L. Five-dimensional topologically twisted maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 131 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2013)131
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