Geometric Analysis and Applications to Quantum Field Theory (Progress in Mathematics)
Contributors: Peter Bouwknegt (Editor); Siye Wu (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
Published: February 8, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780817642877
Subjects: Analytic geometry; Relativistic quantum mechanics & quantum field theory; Quantum Field Theory; Science; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Quantum Theory; Applied; Geometry - Analytic; Mathematics / Geometry / Analytic; Mathematics / Geometry / General; Mathematics-Applied; Science-Mathematical Physics; Geometry; Mathematical Physics
First sentence: There has been much interest in the pure Chern-Simons gauge theory with spacetime a general 3-dimensional manifold since E. Witten in 1989 gave a prescription for obtaining exact expressions for the partition function and expectation values of Wilson loops [1].