A survey on the differential and symplectic geometry of linking numbers

DOI10.1007/s00032-006-0061-5zbMath1165.58004OpenAlexW1985948667WikidataQ115389328 ScholiaQ115389328MaRDI QIDQ879761

Mauro Spera

Publication date: 9 May 2007

Published in: Milan Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00032-006-0061-5

zbMATH Keywords

Geometric quantizationChern-Simons actionArtin's braid groupsMaslov theoryChen iterated integralsGeometric and topological methods of hydrodynamicsMagnetic relaxationOrdinary and higher order linking numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Spaces of embeddings and immersions (58D10) Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Geometric quantization (53D50)

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