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hep-th2024
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…
hep-th1993★ 160 cited
Derivation of the Verlinde Formula from Chern-Simons Theory and the G/G model
M. Blau, G. Thompson
We give a derivation of the Verlinde formula for the WZW model from Chern-Simons theory, without taking recourse to CFT, by calculating explicitly the partition function $Z…
hep-th1991★ 15 cited
Topological gauge theories from supersymmetric quantum mechanics on spaces of connections
M Blau, G Thompson
We rederive the recently introduced topological gauge theories, representing the Euler characteristic of moduli spaces of connections, from supersymmetric quantum…