TY - RPRT T1 - Topological vector symmetry, topological gauge fixing of BRSTQFT and construction of maximal supersymmetry Y1 - 2005 A1 - Laurent Baulieu A1 - Guillaume Bossard A1 - Alessandro Tanzini AB - The scalar and vector topological Yang-Mills symmetries determine a closed and consistent sector of Yang-Mills supersymmetry. We provide a geometrical construction of these symmetries, based on a horizontality condition on reducible manifolds. This yields globally well-defined scalar and vector topological BRST operators. These operators generate a subalgebra of maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, which is small enough to be closed off-shell with a finite set of auxiliary fields and large enough to determine the Yang-Mills supersymmetric theory. Poincaré supersymmetry is reached in the limit of flat manifolds. The arbitrariness of the gauge functions in BRSTQFTs is thus removed by the requirement of scalar and vector topological symmetry, which also determines the complete supersymmetry transformations in a twisted way. Provided additional Killing vectors exist on the manifold, an equivariant extension of our geometrical framework is provided, and the resulting \\\"equivariant topological field theory\\\" corresponds to the twist of super Yang-Mills theory on omega backgrounds. JF - JHEP 0508 (2005) 037 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1741 U1 - 2411 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER -