Orientation twisted homotopy field theories and twisted unoriented Dijkgraaf-Witten theory

DOI10.1007/s00220-019-03478-5zbMath1439.81083arXiv1810.04612OpenAlexW2951273472WikidataQ127653678 ScholiaQ127653678MaRDI QIDQ1984838

Matthew B. Young

Publication date: 7 April 2020

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04612

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28) Generalized (extraordinary) homology and cohomology theories in algebraic topology (55N20) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Groupoids, semigroupoids, semigroups, groups (viewed as categories) (18B40)

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