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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780599203321

Autore

Hu Sen

Titolo

Lecture notes on Chern-Simons-Witten theory [[electronic resource] /] / Sen Hu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; River Edge, NJ, : World Scientific, c2001

ISBN

981-238-657-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WittenE

Disciplina

530.14/3

Soggetti

Gauge fields (Physics)

Geometric quantization

Invariants

Quantum field theory - Mathematics

Three-manifolds (Topology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based in part on lectures presented by E. Witten at Princeton University in the spring of 1989.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Examples of quantizations; classical solutions of gauge field theory; quantization of Chern-Simons action; Chern-Simons-Witten theory and three manifold invariant; renormalized perturbation series of Chern-Simons-Witten theory; topological sigma model and localization. Appendices: complex manifold without potential theory, S.S. Chern; geometric quantization of Chern-Simons gauge theory, S. Axelrod, S.D. Pietra and E. Witten; on holomorphic factorization of WZW and Coset models, E. Witten.

Sommario/riassunto

This work is based on Witten's lectures on topological quantum field theory. Sen Hu has included several appendices providing detals left out of Witten's lectures, and has added two more chapters to update some developments.