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Geometry and Physics
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"Based on the proceedings of the Special Session on Geometry and Physics held over a six month period at the University of Aarhus, Denmark and on articles from the Summer school held at Odense University, Denmark. Offers new contributions on a host of topics that involve physics, geometry, and topology. Written by more than 50 leading international experts."
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Geometry and physics: where are we going?
- Floer homology, A∞-categories and topological field theory
- Quantum field theory, equivariant cohomology, symplectic geometry and moduli spaces of vector bundles on Riemann surfaces
- Notes on Seiberg-Witten invariants
- An introduction to the topology of the moduli space of stable bundles on a Riemann surface
- The fundamental theorem of Vassiliev invariants
- Configuration spaces and imbedding problems
- Topology of the Space of SU(2)-Monopoles in ℝ3
- Recent progress on Kähler-Einstein metrics
- The ODE system arising from cohomogeneity one Einstein metrics
- Einstein metrics on complex surfaces
- BPS states as symplectic invariants from string theory
- Determinant line bundles revisited
- On representations of spin mapping class groups arising in Spin TQFT
- The symplectic S-cobordism conjecture: a summary
- Hamiltonian torus actions
- A new proof of the convexity theorem for the Poisson-Lie moment map
- Symplectic 4-manifolds with b2+=1
- Compact manifolds with exceptional holonomy
- Fusion product of positive level representations and Lie algebra homology
- Affine connections on involutive G-structures
- Observations on the topology of symmetric spaces
- Hyperkähler metrics on cotangent bundles of Hermitian symmetric spaces
- Decomposable self-dual manifolds
- The SU(∞)-Toda Field Equation and Special Four-Dimensional Metrics
- The structure of quaternionic Kähler quotients
- Overview and warmup example for perturbation theory with instantons
- A note on free composition of subfactors
- Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants of 3-manifolds as holomorphic functions
- On finite type invariants of links and rational homology spheres derived from the Jones polynomial and Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant
- A quantum sl2-invariant of 3-manifolds which contains all the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev Invariants
- On some invariants of 3-manifolds
- Quantum Sp(2) invariants of three-manifolds at eighth and tenth roots of unity
- On finite type 3-manifold invariants V: rational homology 3-spheres
- The Casson invariant for a knot in a 3-manifold
- Invariants of links and three-manifolds via Hopf algebras
- Portrait of the handle as a Hopf algebra
- Genealogy of non-perturbative quantum-invariants of 3-manifolds: the surgical family
- Finite order invariants of framed knots in a solid torus and in Arnold’s J+-theory of plane curves
- Numerical application of quantum invariants to random knotting
- Non-Abelian monopoles and vortices
- Seiberg-Witten and Gromov invariants
- Introduction to conformal field theory with gauge symmetries