Differential geometry from quantum field theory

DOI10.1142/S0219887813500035MaRDI QIDQ4917804zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 2 May 2013

Published in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.1340

zbMATH Keywords

chiral anomalydescendant equationselectric-magnetic dualityfiber bundlegauge fieldinstanton moduli spacesupersymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We introduce the historical development and physical idea behind topological Yang-Mills theory and explain how a physical framework describing subatomic physics can be used as a tool to study differential geometry. Further, we emphasize that this phenomenon demonstrates that the interrelation between physics and mathematics have come into a new stage.

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