Non-Abelian bosonization in two dimensions

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DOI10.1007/BF01215276zbMath0536.58012WikidataQ56504915 ScholiaQ56504915MaRDI QIDQ791942

Edward Witten

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)


81T60: Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics

81S10: Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods

53D50: Geometric quantization


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