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Question on Witten’s paper “Supersymmetry and Morse theory”
EDIT. I am trying to read the article “Supersymmetry and Morse theory” by E. Witten (JDG 17 (1982)).
This well known article applies some tools developed by physicists (e.g. path integrals) to ...
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Analytic stuctures on $\mathbb R^n$ and the nilpotent ideal of supermanifolds
I have two questions which are somewhat related:
(a) It is a well known result (of Freedman?) in differential topology that $\mathbb R^4$ has exotic smooth structures. Apparently, it is known that ...
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