Loop Groups, TQFTs and algebraic geometry
Presenter
January 31, 2014
Keywords:
- WZW
- chiral WZW
- modular functors
- Chern-Simons theory
- K-theory
- LG actions
- loop groups
- loop space
MSC:
- 57R56
- 22E67
- 22E66
- 22E65
- 22E70
- 22E47
- 22Exx
- 22-xx
Abstract
In this survey talk, I will shall the role that loop groups have played in the construction of topological gauge theories in dimensions 2 and possibly 3.