Geometric quantization of Chern-Simons gauge theory

DOI10.4310/jdg/1214446565zbMath0697.53061OpenAlexW1897085511WikidataQ115181595 ScholiaQ115181595MaRDI QIDQ911074

Scott Axelrod, Steve Della Pietra, Edward Witten

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214446565

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Simons gauge theoryindex theoremprojectively flat connectionKaehler geometryquantum Hilbert spaceQuillen connectionsymplectic quotients

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10)

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