Search Results - "Freed, Daniel S"
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Gapped Boundary Theories in Three Dimensions
Published in Communications in mathematical physics (01-12-2021)“…We prove a theorem in 3-dimensional topological field theory: a Reshetikhin–Turaev theory admits a nonzero boundary theory iff it is a Turaev–Viro theory. The…”
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Consistency of M-Theory on Non-Orientable Manifolds
Published in Quarterly journal of mathematics (01-06-2021)“…Abstract We prove that there is no parity anomaly in M-theory in the low-energy field theory approximation. Our approach is computational. We determine the…”
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The Atiyah--Singer index theorem
Published in Bulletin (new series) of the American Mathematical Society (01-10-2021)“…The Atiyah–Singer index theorem, a landmark achievement of the early 1960s, brings together ideas in analysis, geometry, and topology. We recount some…”
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Anomalies in the space of coupling constants and their dynamical applications I
Published in SciPost physics (01-01-2020)“…It is customary to couple a quantum system to external classical fields. One application is to couple the global symmetries of the system (including the…”
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Anomalies in the space of coupling constants and their dynamical applications II
Published in SciPost physics (01-01-2020)“…We extend our earlier work on anomalies in the space of coupling constants to four-dimensional gauge theories. Pure Yang-Mills theory (without matter) with a…”
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Loop groups and twisted K-theory II
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Heisenberg groups and noncommutative fluxes
Published in Annals of physics (01-01-2007)“…We develop a group-theoretical approach to the formulation of generalized abelian gauge theories, such as those appearing in string theory and M-theory. We…”
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The uncertainty of fluxes
Published in Communications in mathematical physics (01-04-2007)“…In the ordinary quantum Maxwell theory of a free electromagnetic field, formulated on a curved 3-manifold, we observe that magnetic and electric fluxes cannot…”
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Chern--Weil forms and abstract homotopy theory
Published in Bulletin (new series) of the American Mathematical Society (01-07-2013)“…-bundle. We use the homotopy theory of simplicial sheaves on smooth manifolds to formulate the theorem and set up the proof. Other arguments come from…”
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Loop groups and twisted K-theory III
Published in Annals of mathematics (01-09-2011)“…In this paper, we identify the Ad-equivariant twisted K-theory of a compact Lie group G with the "Verlinde group" of isomorphism classes of admissible…”
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Setting the quantum integrand of M-theory
Published in Communications in mathematical physics (01-04-2006)“…In anomaly-free quantum field theories the integrand in the bosonic functional integral—the exponential of the effective action after integrating out…”
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Computer calculation of witten's 3-manifold invariant
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Relative Quantum Field Theory
Published in Communications in mathematical physics (01-03-2014)“…We highlight the general notion of a relative quantum field theory , which occurs in several contexts. One is in gauge theory based on a compact Lie algebra,…”
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Commentary on "Lectures on Morse theory, old and new"
Published in Bulletin (new series) of the American Mathematical Society (01-10-2011)“…Freed comments on Lectures on Morse theory, old and new by Raoul Bott. This is finite dimensional Morse theory, and while it extends in this form to infinite…”
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Twisted Equivariant Matter
Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (01-12-2013)“…We show how general principles of symmetry in quantum mechanics lead to twisted notions of a group representation. This framework generalizes both the…”
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The Cobordism hypothesis
Published in Bulletin (new series) of the American Mathematical Society (01-01-2013)“…In this expository paper we introduce extended topological quantum field theories and the cobordism hypothesis…”
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Chern-Simons theory with finite gauge group
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The Verlinde algebra is twisted equivariant K-theory
Published in Turkish journal of mathematics (2001)“…The Verlinde algebra, which mathematically appears in the theory of loop groups and is related to moduli spaces of bundles over curves, turns out to be…”
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Higher algebraic structures and quantization
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Remarks on Chern-Simons theory
Published in Bulletin (new series) of the American Mathematical Society (01-04-2009)“…The classical Chern-Simons invariant is the basis for a 3-dimensional topological quantum field theory. We describe some of the mathematical structure which…”
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