Polymer topology and Chern-Simons field theory

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00416-2zbMath0957.81007OpenAlexW2094520794WikidataQ62274669 ScholiaQ62274669MaRDI QIDQ1572317

Franco Ferrari, Ignazio Lazzizzera

Publication date: 12 July 2000

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0550-3213(99)00416-2

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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