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Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory and Perturbative String Theory
About this Title
Hisham Sati, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA and Urs Schreiber, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Editors
Publication: Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics
Publication Year:
2011; Volume 83
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-5195-1 (print); 978-0-8218-8334-1 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/pspum/083
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Front/Back Matter
Foundations for quantum field theory
- Julia E. Bergner – Models for $(\infty , n)$-categories and the cobordism hypothesis [MR 2742424]
- Ittay Weiss – From operads to dendroidal sets [MR 2742425]
- Alexei Davydov, Liang Kong and Ingo Runkel – Field theories with defects and the centre functor [MR 2742426]
Quanitization of field theories
- Frédéric Paugam – Homotopical Poisson reduction of gauge theories [MR 2742427]
- Jacques Distler, Daniel S. Freed and Gregory W. Moore – Orientifold précis [MR 2742428]
Two-dimensional quantum field theories
- Anton Kapustin and Natalia Saulina – Surface operators in 3d topological field theory and 2d rational conformal field theory [MR 2742429]
- Liang Kong – Conformal field theory and a new geometry [MR 2742430]
- Yan Soibelman – Collapsing conformal field theories, spaces with non-negative Ricci curvature and non-commutative geometry [MR 2742431]
- Stephan Stolz and Peter Teichner – Supersymmetric field theories and generalized cohomology [MR 2742432]
- Christopher L. Douglas and André G. Henriques – Topological modular forms and conformal nets [MR 2742433]