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hep-th2006★ 4 cited
Pions and Generalized Cohomology
Daniel S. Freed
The Wess-Zumino-Witten term was first introduced in the low energy sigma-model which describes pions, the Goldstone bosons for the broken flavor symmetry in quantum chromodynamics.…
hep-th2006★ 121 cited
Heisenberg Groups and Noncommutative Fluxes
Daniel S. Freed, Gregory W. Moore, Graeme Segal
We develop a group-theoretical approach to the formulation of generalized abelian gauge theories, such as those appearing in string theory and M-theory. We explore several applicat…
hep-th2006★ 122 cited
The Uncertainty of Fluxes
Daniel S. Freed, Gregory W. Moore, Graeme Segal
In the ordinary quantum Maxwell theory of a free electromagnetic field, formulated on a curved 3-manifold, we observe that magnetic and electric fluxes cannot be simultaneously mea…