Global gravitational anomalies

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Publication:1067678


DOI10.1007/BF01212448zbMath0581.58038MaRDI QIDQ1067678

Edward Witten

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)


83E50: Supergravity

81T60: Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics

83C45: Quantization of the gravitational field

81T08: Constructive quantum field theory

58J90: Applications of PDEs on manifolds


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