Lectures on \(2\)D Yang-Mills theory, equivariant cohomology and topological field theories

DOI10.1016/0920-5632(95)00434-BzbMath0991.81585arXivhep-th/9411210WikidataQ126548449 ScholiaQ126548449MaRDI QIDQ5927032

Sanjaye Ramgoolam, Stefan Cordes, Gregory W. Moore

Publication date: 8 March 2001

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B. Proceedings Supplements (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9411210

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Complex-analytic moduli problems (32G13) Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

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