IDEAS OF GEOMETRIZATION, GEOMETRIC INVARIANTS OF LOW-DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS, AND TOPOLOGICAL QUANTUM FIELD THEORIES
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Publication:3401893
DOI10.1142/S0219887809003783zbMath1229.81272MaRDI QIDQ3401893
Publication date: 1 February 2010
Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory
81T30: String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory
81T45: Topological field theories in quantum mechanics
81Q70: Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory
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