Geometry and physics

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1914, 2010, Pages 913-926

  Atiyah, Michael ^a   Dijkgraaf, Robbert ^b   Hitchin, Nigel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Four dimensional topology; Knot invariants; Quantum physics

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY; GENERAL TRENDS; KNOT INVARIANTS; QUANTUM PHYSICS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 77449138557     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0227     Document Type: Review

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