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Doing geometry using Feynman Path Integral?

I have often heard in the folk-lore that Feynman Path Integral can be used to compute geometric invariants of a space. Coming from a background of studying Quantum Field Theory from the books like ...
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Errata for Bott and Tu's book "Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology"

My book is Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology by Loring W. Tu and Raoul Bott of which An Introduction to Manifolds by Tu is a prequel. Is there a good list of errata for Bott and Tu available? ...
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List of generic properties of Riemannian metrics

I am highly interested in compiling a list of generic properties of Riemannian metrics on a (may be compact) manifold in general, or under "relatively broad" assumptions, like generic properties of ...
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Constant curvature manifolds

In two different books I found these two related statements. The book by Jost defines a ``locally symmetric space" as one for which the curvature tensor is constant and which is geodesically complete....
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Survey papers on the role played by PDE in mathematics

There are already several questions on MathOverflow that inquire about the many diverse relationships between PDE and several other 'areas' of mathematics (e.g., algebraic and differential geometry ...