Supersymmetric field theories and generalized cohomology
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This paper is a survey of our mathematical notions of Euclidean field theories as models for (the cocycles in) a cohomology theory. This subject was pioneered by Graeme Segal [Se1] who suggested more than two decades ago that a cohomology theory known as elliptic cohomology can be described in terms of 2-dimensional (conformal) field theories. Generally what we are looking for are isomorphisms of the form
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تاریخ انتشار 2011