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Supersymmetric Euclidean Field Theories and K-theory

Algebraic Topology 2019-01-09 v1 K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

We construct spaces of 1-dimensional supersymmetric Euclidean field theories and show that they represent real or complex K-theory. A noteworthy feature of our bordism category is that the identity bordism of a point is connected to intervals of positive length.

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@article{arxiv.1901.02110,
  title  = {Supersymmetric Euclidean Field Theories and K-theory},
  author = {Peter Ulrickson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.02110},
  year   = {2019}
}

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24 pages, 4 figures