Timeline for Atiyah-Singer index theorem
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| Oct 17, 2010 at 13:27 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | Well, don't be fooled by words like "temperature",... The proof sounds physical because that is the scientific context in which it first appeared, but it's essentially isomorphic to the heat kernel proof. The word "heat" is not an accident :) | |
| Oct 17, 2010 at 11:18 | comment | added | Johannes Ebert | This seems to be rather a physical interpretation of the heat kernel proof... | |
| Dec 3, 2009 at 17:16 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | Indeed! I had forgotten that one. Thanks. (I found the supersymmetric proof more intuitive, although at the end of the day it's very similar and possibly isomorphic to the one based on the heat kernel.) | |
| Dec 3, 2009 at 16:41 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | There's a more classical related-to-physics proof, due to Gilkey. "The index theorem and the heat equation," Publish or Perish Press, Boston Mass (1974), 125pp. | |
| Dec 3, 2009 at 16:31 | history | answered | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | CC BY-SA 2.5 |