On quantum gauge theories in two dimensions

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DOI10.1007/BF02100009zbMath0762.53063WikidataQ57310051 ScholiaQ57310051MaRDI QIDQ1182054

Edward Witten

Publication date: 27 June 1992

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

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theory fundamental groups Chern-Simons theory Yang-Mills theory Reidemeister-Ray-Singer torsion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07)

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