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Lectures on 2D Yang-Mills, Equivariant cohomology, and topological field theories

✍ Scribed by Cordes, Moore, Ramgoolam.

Book ID: 127430996
Year: 1994
Tongue: English
Weight: 1 MB
Series: hep-th_9411210
Category: Library
ISBN-13: 9781741751413

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✦ Synopsis

These are expository lectures reviewing A) recent developments in two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory and B) the construction of topological field theory Lagrangians. Topological field theory is discussed from the point of view of infinite-dimensional differential geometry. We emphasize the unifying role of equivariant cohomology both as the underlying principle in the formulation of BRST transformation laws and as a central concept in the geometrical interpretation of topological field theory path integrals.

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