Gelfand-Fuchs cohomology and M-Theory as a Topological Quantum Field Theory
arXiv:hep-th/9906045
Abstract
We introduce a Lagrangian density for M-Theory which is purely topological using Gelfand-Fuchs cohomology. Next we calculate the partition function which indeed gives topological invariants that can be expressed via the Ray-Singer analytic torsion.
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