Lectures on Field Theory and Topology Nadine Bernard Olympic and Washington Coast

Olympic and Washington Coast

Rebecca Hutton

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Lectures on Field Theory and Topology Nadine Bernard Olympic and Washington CoastThese lectures recount an application of stable homotopy theory to a concrete problem in low energy physics: the classification of special phases of matter. While the joint work of the author and Michael Hopkins is a focal point, a general geometric frame of reference on quantum field theory is emphasized. Early lectures describe the geometric axiom systems introduced by Graeme Segal and Michael Atiyah in the late 1980s, as well as subsequent