Topological quantum field theory and four-manifolds
| dc.creator | Marino, Marcos | |
| dc.date | 2000-08-11 | |
| dc.date | 2000-09-05 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:10:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:10:19Z | |
| dc.description | I review some recent results on four-manifold invariants which have been obtained in the context of topological quantum field theory. I focus on three different aspects: (a) the computation of correlation functions, which give explicit results for the Donaldson invariants of non-simply connected manifolds, and for generalizations of these invariants to the gauge group SU(N); (b) compactifications to lower dimensions, and relations with three-manifold topology and with intersection theory on the moduli space of flat connections on Riemann surfaces; (c) four-dimensional theories with critical behavior, which give some remarkable constraints on Seiberg-Witten invariants and new results on the geography of four-manifolds. | |
| dc.description | 10 pages, LaTeX. Talk given at the 3rd ECM, Barcelona, July 2000; references added | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0008100 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0008100 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/50177 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.subject | Differential Geometry | |
| dc.title | Topological quantum field theory and four-manifolds | |
| dc.type | text |