Mathai-Quillen formalism -- From the point of view of path integrals (Q1354891)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1009890
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    Mathai-Quillen formalism -- From the point of view of path integrals
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1009890

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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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