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VOL. 2 | 2001 A Survey of Donaldson Theory
Chapter Author(s) Gregory L. Naber
Editor(s) Ivaïlo M. Mladenov, Gregory L. Naber
Geom. Integrability & Quantization, 2001: 33-71 (2001) DOI: 10.7546/giq-2-2001-33-71

Abstract

The purpose of this series of lectures is to provide an informal survey of the background in Donaldson theory required to understand the motivation behind Witten’s construction (in 1988) of the first topological quantum field theory.

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Published: 1 January 2001
First available in Project Euclid: 5 June 2015

zbMATH: 1062.81542
MathSciNet: MR1815630

Digital Object Identifier: 10.7546/giq-2-2001-33-71

Rights: Copyright © 2001 Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

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