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Gauge Theory, Hyperbolic Geometry and Virasoro Coadjoint Orbits
Matthias Blau, Donald R. Youmans
It has long been known that the moduli space of hyperbolic metrics on the disc can be identified with the Virasoro coadjoint orbit $\mathrm{Diff}^+(S^1) / \mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})…
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On the Evaluation of the Ray-Singer Torsion Path Integral
Matthias Blau, Mbambu Kakona, George Thompson
There are very few explicit evaluations of path integrals for topological gauge theories in more than 3 dimensions. Here we provide such a calculation for the path integral represe…