Homotopy Quantum Field Theory (HQFT) is a branch of Topological Quantum Field Theory founded by E. Witten and M. Atiyah. It applies ideas from theoretical physics to study principal bundles over manifolds and, more generally, homotopy classes of maps from manifolds to a fixed target space. This b
Homotopy quantum field theory and quantum groups [PhD thesis]
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- Publisher
- University of Warwick
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 200
- Category
- Library
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