Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory and Perturbative String Theory
About this Volume
Edited by: Hisham Sati, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA and Urs Schreiber, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Publication Year
2011: Volume: 83
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-5195-1 (print); 978-0-8218-8334-1 (online)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/pspum/083
ReadershipTable of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Foundations for quantum field theory
- Julia E. Bergner – Models for $(\infty , n)$-categories and the cobordism hypothesis
- Ittay Weiss – From operads to dendroidal sets
- Alexei Davydov, Liang Kong and Ingo Runkel – Field theories with defects and the centre functor
Quanitization of field theories
- Frédéric Paugam – Homotopical Poisson reduction of gauge theories
- Jacques Distler, Daniel S. Freed and Gregory W. Moore – Orientifold précis
Two-dimensional quantum field theories
- Anton Kapustin and Natalia Saulina – Surface operators in 3d topological field theory and 2d rational conformal field theory
- Liang Kong – Conformal field theory and a new geometry
- Yan Soibelman – Collapsing conformal field theories, spaces with non-negative Ricci curvature and non-commutative geometry
- Stephan Stolz and Peter Teichner – Supersymmetric field theories and generalized cohomology
- Christopher L. Douglas and André G. Henriques – Topological modular forms and conformal nets
