From superconductors and four-manifolds to weak interactions

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-07-01167-6MaRDI QIDQ5423969zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Edward Witten

Publication date 1 November 2007

Published in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

four-manifoldsweak interactionsSuperconductors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds (53D45) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

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• High \(T_{c}\) superconductivity: symmetries and reflections
• Kink dynamics in the \(\phi^4\) model: asymptotic stability for odd perturbations in the energy space
• A sufficient condition for asymptotic stability of kinks in general (1+1)-scalar field models
• The Higgs mechanism and superconductivity: A case study of formal analogies
• Nonexistence of small, odd breathers for a class of nonlinear wave equations
• On asymptotic stability of nonlinear waves
• G₂ holonomy, Taubes' construction of Seiberg-Witten invariants and superconducting vortices
• Ginzburg-Landau equations on Riemann surfaces of higher genus
• Taubes's proof of the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three
• Polynomial cubic differentials and convex polygons in the projective plane
• Asymptotic stability for odd perturbations of the stationary kink in the variable-speed \(\phi ^4\) model

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