Publication:5395366

Publication date: 2 November 2006

conformal field theory; mirror symmetry; quantum field theory; M-theory; gauge theory; string theory; Maldacena conjecture; Wess-Zumino-Witten model; Donaldson theory; Kac-Moody groups; topological sigma model; topological quantum field theory; self-duality equations; Chern-Simons-Witten theory; Witten's magical equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T40: Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics

83E30: String and superstring theories in gravitational theory

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

81V05: Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics

81R10: Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations

81T25: Quantum field theory on lattices

81T30: String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory

81-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory

81T45: Topological field theories in quantum mechanics

14J80: Topology of surfaces (Donaldson polynomials, Seiberg-Witten invariants)

14D21: Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory)

00A79: Physics

81-01: Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to quantum theory

00A08: Recreational mathematics

83-01: Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory

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