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The century of the incomplete revolution: searching for general relativistic quantum field theory [PDF]

, 1999
In fundamental physics, this has been the century of quantum mechanics and general relativity. It has also been the century of the long search for a conceptual framework capable of embracing the astonishing features of the world that have been revealed ...
Ashtekar A., Ashtekar A., Ashtekar A., Baez J., Barbero F., Barbero F., Barbieri A., Borissov R., Carlo Rovelli, Connes A., Connes A., Crane L., Foxon T. J., Freidel L., Freidel L., Grott N., Iwasaki J., Krasnov K., Markopoulou F., Pietri R. De, Reisenberger M., Reisenberger M., Rovelli C., Rovelli C., Rovelli C., Rovelli C., Rovelli C., Rovelli C., Rovelli C., Rovelli C., Rovelli C., Rovelli C., Rovelli C., Rovelli C., Rovelli C., Rovelli C., Rovelli C., Rovelli C., Rovelli C., Smolin L., Thiemann T., Turaev V. G., Witten E., Yetter D., Zapata J., Zapata J.   +45 more
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Quantum Gravity as Topological Quantum Field Theory [PDF]

, 1995
The physics of quantum gravity is discussed within the framework of topological quantum field theory. Some of the principles are illustrated with examples taken from theories in which space-time is three dimensional.Comment: 23 pages, amstex, JMP special
Barrett, John W.
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Duality and the Equivalence Principle of Quantum Mechanics [PDF]

, 2000
Following a suggestion by Vafa, we present a quantum-mechanical model for S-duality symmetries observed in the quantum theories of fields, strings and branes.
Aharony O., Berezin F., Egusquiza I., JOSÉ M. ISIDRO, Klauder J.   +4 more
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Toric geometry and the dual of ℐ-extremization

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019
We consider d = 3, N = 2 $$ \mathcal{N}=2 $$ gauge theories arising on membranes sitting at the apex of an arbitrary toric Calabi-Yau 4-fold cone singularity that are then further compactified on a Riemann surface, Σ g , with a topological twist that ...
Jerome P. Gauntlett, Dario Martelli, James Sparks   +2 more
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Anticommutativity Equation in Topological Quantum Mechanics [PDF]

, 2002
We consider topological quantum mechanics as an example of topological field theory and show that its special properties lead to numerous interesting relations for topological corellators in this theory. We prove that the generating function $\mathcal{F}$
A. Losev, A. Losev, E. Witten, E. Witten, E. Witten, E. Witten, V. Lysov   +6 more
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Is Quantum Field Theory Necessarily “Quantum”?

Quantum Reports
The mathematical universe of the quantum topos, which is formulated on the basis of classical Boolean snapshots, delivers a neo-realist description of quantum mechanics that preserves realism.
Ali Shojaei-Fard
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Morse Theory in Field Theory

, 2012
We describe correlations functions of topological quantum mechanics (TQM) in terms of Morse theory. We review the basics of topological field theories and discuss geometric and algebraic interpretations of TQM.
Koroteev, P., Zayakin, A. V.
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Localization and Diagonalization: A review of functional integral techniques for low-dimensional gauge theories and topological field theories

, 1995
We review localization techniques for functional integrals which have recently been used to perform calculations in and gain insight into the structure of certain topological field theories and low-dimensional gauge theories.
Altschuler D., Atiyah M. F., George Thompson, Matthias Blau, Taubes C. H., Witten E.   +5 more
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New observables in topological instantonic field theories

, 2011
Instantonic theories are quantum field theories where all correlators are determined by integrals over the finite-dimensional space (space of generalized instantons).
Andrey Losev, Bott, Frenkel, Frenkel, Frenkel, Goodman, Sergey Slizovskiy, Witten, Witten, Witten   +9 more
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The Mathai-Quillen Formalism and Topological Field Theory

, 1992
These lecture notes give an introductory account of an approach to cohomological field theory due to Atiyah and Jeffrey which is based on the construction of Gaussian shaped Thom forms by Mathai and Quillen.
Alvarez-Gaumé, Alvarez-Gaumé, Atiyah, Atiyah, Atiyah, Atiyah, Axelrod, Babelon, Baulieu, Birmingham, Birmingham, Bismut, Bismut, Blau, Blau, Bott, Dijkgraaf, Distler, Donaldson, Donaldson, Donaldson, Freed, Friedan, Groisser, Kalkman, Mathai, Matthias Blau, Montano, Narasimhan, Singer, Sonnenschein, Taubes, Thompson, Witten, Witten, Witten, Witten, Witten, Witten, Witten, Witten, Witten, Witten   +42 more
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