The Mathai-Quillen formalism and topological field theory

DOI10.1016/0393-0440(93)90049-KzbMath0780.57024arXivhep-th/9203026OpenAlexW2087676549MaRDI QIDQ687733

Matthias Blau

Publication date: 6 February 1994

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9203026

zbMATH Keywords

supersymmetric quantum mechanicscohomological field theoryDonaldson theoryspaces of connectionsGaussian shaped Thom formsMathai-Quillen formalism for finite dimensional vector bundlesregularized Euler number of loop spaceregularized Euler numbers of infinite dimensional vector bundlestopological gauge theories from infinite dimensional vector bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Homology and cohomology theories in algebraic topology (55N99)

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