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Konrad Waldorf
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Famous mathematical quotes

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Are higher categories useful?

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What is the difference between matrix theory and linear algebra?

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A novice question on Quantum Mechanics

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(How) is category theory actually useful in actual physics?

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Why do gerbes live in H^2?

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Loop Spaces as Generalized Smooth spaces or as Infinite dimensional Manifolds?

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Are higher categories useful?

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Applications of topological and diferentiable stacks

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Famous mathematical quotes

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Characterizing flat 2-connections by their holonomy

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What are "good" examples of string manifolds?

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Questions from Chern-Simons theory

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Is the first differential Pontryagin class a morphism of stacks?

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The Chern-Simons/Wess-Zumino-Witten correspondence

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What is the classifying space of "G-bundles with connections"

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Long exact sequence of cohomology from 2-groups

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Interpretation of the monomorphism $H^2(\pi_1(X),\mathbb{Z}) \rightarrow H^2(X,\mathbb{Z})$

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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics

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What is Pressley and Segal's "basic inner product" for compact simple Lie algebras of types B and C?

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Categorifying the definition of a principal $G$ bundle

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Cartesian-closed full subcategory of locally ringed spaces containing smooth manifolds

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Group cohomology version of Deligne-Beilinson cohomology

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Classifying space $\text{BU}(n)$ from the differential-geometric point of view?

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Vector fields on path spaces

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Are bundle gerbes bundles of algebras?

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free loop space and invariant forms

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When do two holonomy maps determine flat bundles that are isomorphic as just bundles (w/o regard to the flat connections)?

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Group Extensions and Line Bundles on $BG$

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Witten's QFT and Jones Poly paper