scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4048607

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Authors Edward Witten

Publication date 1985

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac-Ramond operatorglobal anomaliesgrand unified symmetry breakingspin manifoldstring theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Differential topology (57R99) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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