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Lecture notes on Chern-Simons-Witten theory /

This work is based on Witten's lectures on topological quantum field theory. Sen Hu has included several appendices providing detals left out of Witten's lectures, and has added two more chapters to update some developments.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hu, Sen
Otros Autores: Witten, E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Examples of quantizations; classical solutions of gauge field theory; quantization of Chern-Simons action; Chern-Simons-Witten theory and three manifold invariant; renormalized perturbation series of Chern-Simons-Witten theory; topological sigma model and localization. Appendices: complex manifold without potential theory, S.S. Chern; geometric quantization of Chern-Simons gauge theory, S. Axelrod, S.D. Pietra and E. Witten; on holomorphic factorization of WZW and Coset models, E. Witten.