Mathai-Quillen formalism -- From the point of view of path integrals (Q1354891)
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Mathai-Quillen formalism -- From the point of view of path integrals (English)
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14 May 1997
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The paper deals with the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem and with the Hopf-Poincaré theorem, both describing the Euler characteristic of a manifold. The author develops a path integral derivation of Mathai-Quillen formalism which gives a new interpretation of the above theorems.
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Grassmann algebra
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Euler characteristic
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path integral
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