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Is “semisimple” a dense condition among Lie algebras?

dec 25 09 at 1:08 Theo Johnson-Freyd 22.3k227110

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What algebraic group does Tannaka-Krein reconstruct when fed the category of modules of a non-algebraic Lie algebra?

mar 8 at 16:55 Daniel Miller 2,311823

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What does “quantization is not a functor” really mean?

feb 27 10 at 16:41 David Jordan 4,080723

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What is the classifying space of “G-bundles with connections”

feb 18 10 at 2:04 Konrad Waldorf 1,90511315

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Is there a “quantum” Riemann zeta function?

nov 23 10 at 21:16 F. C. 41236

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What is the symbol of a differential operator?

mar 5 10 at 16:25 Steve Huntsman 8,13912256

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What does the generating function $x/(1 - e^{-x})$ count?

mar 9 10 at 9:06 Bruce Westbury 6,63521025

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Examples of applications of the Borel-Weil-Bott theorem?

jan 9 10 at 23:17 Ben Webster 20.7k144114

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What’s the current state of the classification of not-fully-extended TQFTs?

jul 18 10 at 16:30 Jacob Lurie 6,2592436

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Can every manifold be given an analytic structure?

dec 13 09 at 22:17 Scott Morrison 4,46042644

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