2-d physics and 3-d topology

DOI10.1007/BF02104124zbMath0717.57007MaRDI QIDQ2638605

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 1991

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

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravity; supersymmetry; four-dimensional manifolds; framed oriented labeled links; Invariants of three-dimensional manifolds; Moore-Seiberg axioms for a Rational Conformal field theory; Witten's Chern-Simons path integrals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T40: Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics

81T60: Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics

81T20: Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds

83C45: Quantization of the gravitational field

83C47: Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory

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