Lecture Notes on Topological Field Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2012-01-27 v1
Abstract
These notes are based on the lecture the author gave at the workshop 'Geometry of Strings and Fields' held at Nordita, Stockholm. In these notes, I shall cover some topics in both the perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of the topological Chern-Simons theory. The non-perturbative part will mostly be about the quantization of Chern-Simons theory and the use of surgery for computation, while the non-perturbative part will include brief discussions about framings, eta invariants, APS-index theorem, torsions and finite type knot invariants.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1201.5550,
title = {Lecture Notes on Topological Field Theory},
author = {Jian Qiu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.5550},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Notes based on lectures given at the workshop 'Geometry of Strings and Fields' held at Nordita, Stockholm. Comments, suggestions and criticisms welcome