Unifying Themes in Topological Field Theories
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We discuss unifying features of topological field theories in 2, 3 and 4 dimensions. This includes relations among enumerative geometry (2d topological field theory) link invariants (3d Chern-Simons theory) and Donaldson invariants (4d topological theory).
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0005180,
title = {Unifying Themes in Topological Field Theories},
author = {Cumrun Vafa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0005180},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
12 pages. Talk presented in conference on Geometry and Topology in honor of M. Atiyah, R. Bott, F. Hirzebruch and I. Singer, Harvard University, May 1999