scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5070514

zbMath1128.81025MaRDI QIDQ5395366

Peter Woit

Publication date: 2 November 2006

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theorymirror symmetryquantum field theoryM-theorygauge theorystring theoryMaldacena conjectureWess-Zumino-Witten modelDonaldson theoryKac-Moody groupstopological sigma modeltopological quantum field theoryself-duality equationsChern-Simons-Witten theoryWitten's magical equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Topology of surfaces (Donaldson polynomials, Seiberg-Witten invariants) (14J80) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Physics (00A79) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to quantum theory (81-01) Recreational mathematics (00A08) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-01)

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