Mathematical foundations of quantum field theory and perturbative string theory
By: Hisham Sati, Urs Schreiber, editors
Series: Proceedings of symposia in pure mathematics -- v. 83
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Providence, R.I
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780821851951
Subjects: Mathematics; Congresses; Topological fields; String models; Quantum field theory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Models for ([infinity symbol], n)-categories and the cobordism hypothesis / Julia Bergner; title: From operads to dendroidal sets / Ittay Weiss; title: Field theories with defects and the centre functor / Alexei Davydov, Liang Kong, and Ingo Runkel; title: Homotopical poisson reduction of gauge theories / Frédéric Paugam; title: Orientifold précis / Jacques Distler, Daniel Freed, and Gregory Moore; title: Surface operators in 3d TFT and 2d rational CFT / Anton Kapustin and Natalia Saulina; title: Conformal field theory and a new geometry / Liang Kong; title: Collapsing conformal field theories, spaces with non-negative Ricci curvature and non-commutative geometry / Yan Soibelman; title: Supersymmetric field theories and generalized cohomology / Stephan Stolz and Peter Teichner; title: Topological modular forms and conformal nets / Christpher Douglas and André Henriques.