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Global structure of euclidean quantum gravity
Daniel Friedan
Euclidean quantum gravity (EQG) separates into a local theory and a global theory. The local theory operates in every compact -manifold with boundary to produce a state on the b…
Thermodynamic stability of a cosmological SU(2)-weak gauge field
Daniel Friedan
The CGF cosmology is a complete theory of cosmology from the electroweak transition onward. It is semi-classical. At leading order the only matter is dark matter -- a cosmological…
A pragmatic approach to formal fundamental physics
Daniel Friedan
A minimal practical formal structure for a fundamental theory is suggested. A mechanism that produces such a structure is reviewed. The proposed mechanism has possibilities of prod…
Boundary and Defect CFT: Open Problems and Applications
Natan Andrei, Agnese Bissi, Matthew Buican +18
Proceedings of the workshop "Boundary and Defect Conformal Field Theory: Open Problems and Applications," Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire, UK, 7-8 Sept. 2017.
A new kind of quantum field theory of (n-1)-dimensional defects in 2n dimensions
Daniel Friedan
I describe a project to open a new territory of quantum field theory where the fields live not on a space-time manifold but on certain complete metric spaces of (n-1)-dimensional o…
Quantum field theories of extended objects
Daniel Friedan
First steps are taken in a project to construct a general class of conformal and perhaps, eventually, non-conformal quantum field theories of (n-1)-dimensional extended objects in…