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We prove an Atiyah-Bott-Berline-Vergne type localization formula for Killing foliations in the context of equivariant basic cohomology. As an application, we localize some Chern-Simons type invariants, for example the volume of Sasakian…
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We study the dependence of geometric quantization of the standard symplectic torus on the choice of invariant polarization. Real and mixed polarizations are interpreted as degenerate complex structures. Using a weak version of the equations…
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We investigate an equivariant generalization of Morse theory for a general class of integrable models. In particular, we derive equivariant versions of the classical Poincar\'e-Hopf and Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorems and present the…
We construct a manifest gauge invariant renormalization framework by first introducing a perturbative BRST Feynman graph complex and then combining it with Connes--Kreimer renormalization theory: To this end, we first formalize the…
Using free field representation of quantum affine algebra $U_q(\widehat{sl_2})$, we investigate the structure of the Fock modules over $U_q(\widehat{sl_2})$. The analisys is based on a $q$-analog of the BRST formalism given by Bernard and…
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