Skip to main content

All Questions

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
9 votes
0 answers
371 views

Which of the physics dualities are closest in essence to the Spanier-Whitehead duality (with a subquestion)?

First of all, what I want to ask is slightly more elaborate than what stands in the title (hence the subquestion). I am telling this since as it is, the title contains a meaningful question, but it ...
მამუკა ჯიბლაძე's user avatar
38 votes
6 answers
7k views

Companion to theoretical physics for working mathematicians

In the Princeton Companion to Mathematics one reads that even pure mathematicians should know some theoretical physics and applied mathematics. What are some well-organized comprehensive companions to ...
9 votes
2 answers
1k views

What is the BRST-anti-BRST formalism?

What is the BRST-anti-BRST formalism? Is the Sp(2) doublet the ghost, antighost pair? Introductory accounts of this subject seem to be hard to find. I would appreciate a reference for someone who ...
Jim Stasheff's user avatar
  • 3,880