Publication:4000318
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zbMath0764.53001MaRDI QIDQ4000318
Publication date: 18 September 1992
quantum field theory; de Rham cohomology; gauge theory; characteristic classes; general relativity; homology groups; index theorems; homotopy groups; anomalies in gauge theories; Polyakov's string theory
53C07: Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills)
53-01: Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to differential geometry
57-01: Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes
81Txx: Quantum field theory; related classical field theories
83Cxx: General relativity
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