Topological field theory interpretation of string topology

DOI10.1007/s00220-003-0917-2zbMath1052.81095arXivmath/0202176OpenAlexW2018973671MaRDI QIDQ1416929

Jürg Fröhlich, Bill Pedrini, Alberto Sergio Cattaneo

Publication date: 16 December 2003

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0202176

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56)

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