String holonomy and extrinsic geometry in four-dimensional topological gauge theory

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00586-0zbMath0961.81101arXivhep-th/9804150MaRDI QIDQ1570631

Richard J. Szabo

Publication date: 11 July 2000

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9804150

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

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