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Lectures on Field Theory and Topology
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Daniel S. Freed, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Publication: CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics
Publication Year:
2019; Volume 133
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-5206-3 (print); 978-1-4704-5391-6 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/cbms/133
MathSciNet review: MR3969923
MSC: Primary 57R56; Secondary 55-02, 81Q70, 81T45, 82B10
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Chapters
- Introduction
- Bordism and topological field theories
- Quantum mechanics
- Wick-rotated quantum field theory and symmetry
- Classification theorems
- Extended locality
- Invertibility and stable homotopy theory
- Wick-rotated unitarity
- Extended positivity and stable homotopy theory
- Non-topological invertible field theories
- Computations for electron systems
- Anomalies in field theory
- Review of categories
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