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zbMath1337.81106arXiv1001.2933MaRDI QIDQ3108683

Edward Witten

Publication date: 5 January 2012

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.2933


81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory

81T45: Topological field theories in quantum mechanics

58J28: Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants


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