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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788792403321

Titolo

Geometric and topological methods for quantum field theory : Summer School on Geometric and Topological Methods for Quantum Field Theory, July 11-29, 2005, Villa de Leyva, Colombia / / S. Paycha, B. Uribe, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

0-8218-8113-2

0-8218-4062-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 434

Disciplina

530.14/3

Soggetti

Quantum field theory

Algebraic topology

Geometry, Algebraic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""List of participants""; ""Invited Lecturers""; ""Deformation Quantization: a Mini-Lecture""; ""Examples of noncommutative instantons""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Toric noncommutative manifolds""; ""3. Gauge theory on the sphere s4Î?""; ""4. SU(2)-instantons on S4Î?""; ""5. An instanton bundle over a symplectic quantum sphere S4q""; ""Appendix A. Connections on noncommutative vector bundles""; ""Appendix B. The Chern character of projections""; ""References""; ""Topological Quantum Field Theories, Strings and Orbifolds""; ""1. Group Actions""; ""2. Orbifolds""