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On formal groups and geometric quantization

Algebraic Topology 2020-01-20 v3

Abstract

The complex projective spaces, considered as prequantized symplectic manifolds, are roughly to the complete symmetric functions as those projective spaces, regarded as complex-oriented manifolds, are to Newton's power sums.

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@article{arxiv.1905.06181,
  title  = {On formal groups and geometric quantization},
  author = {Jack Morava},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.06181},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Extensively revised; apologies for the previous version! Scrambled abstract moreover corrected

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