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Pretty Good Gravity

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v3 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

A theory of topological gravity is a homotopy-theoretic representation of the Segal-Tillmann topologification of a two-category with cobordisms as morphisms. This note describes a relatively accessible example of such a thing, suggested by the wall-crossing formulas of Donaldson theory.

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@article{arxiv.math/0007018,
  title  = {Pretty Good Gravity},
  author = {Jack Morava},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0007018},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Talk at the RIMS Symposium on algebraic geometry and integrable systems related to string theory, Kyoto, June 12-16, 2000. This final version is to appear in Adv. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics