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href='/nlab/show/diff/classical+physics'>classical physics</a></p> <ul> <li><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/classical+mechanics'>classical mechanics</a></li> <li><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/wave'>waves</a> and <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/optics'>optics</a></li> <li><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/thermodynamics'>thermodynamics</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p><strong><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/quantum+mechanics'>Quantum Mechanics</a></strong></p> <ul> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/quantum+information+theory+via+dagger-compact+categories'>in terms of ∞-compact categories</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/quantum+information'>quantum information</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Hamiltonian'>Hamiltonian operator</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/density+matrix'>density matrix</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Kochen-Specker+theorem'>Kochen-Specker theorem</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Bell%27s+inequality'>Bell's theorem</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Gleason%27s+theorem'>Gleason's theorem</a></p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p><strong><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/quantization'>Quantization</a></strong></p> <ul> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/geometric+quantization'>geometric quantization</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/deformation+quantization'>deformation quantization</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/path+integral'>path integral quantization</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/semiclassical+approximation'>semiclassical approximation</a></p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p><strong><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/quantum+field+theory'>Quantum Field Theory</a></strong></p> <ul> <li> <p>Axiomatizations</p> <ul> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/AQFT'>algebraic QFT</a></p> <ul> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Wightman+axioms'>Wightman axioms</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Haag-Kastler+axioms'>Haag-Kastler axioms</a></p> <ul> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/operator+algebra'>operator algebra</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/causally+local+net+of+observables'>local net</a></p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/conformal+net'>conformal net</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Reeh-Schlieder+theorem'>Reeh-Schlieder theorem</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Osterwalder-Schrader+theorem'>Osterwalder-Schrader theorem</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/PCT+theorem'>PCT theorem</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Bisognano-Wichmann+theorem'>Bisognano-Wichmann theorem</a></p> <ul> <li><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/modular+theory'>modular theory</a></li> </ul> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/spin-statistics+theorem'>spin-statistics theorem</a></p> <ul> <li><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/boson'>boson</a>, <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/fermion'>fermion</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/functorial+field+theory'>functorial QFT</a></p> <ul> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/cobordism'>cobordism</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/%28infinity%2Cn%29-category+of+cobordisms'>(∞,n)-category of cobordisms</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/cobordism+hypothesis'>cobordism hypothesis</a>-theorem</p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/extended+functorial+field+theory'>extended topological quantum field theory</a></p> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Tools</p> <ul> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/perturbative+quantum+field+theory'>perturbative quantum field theory</a>, <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/vacuum'>vacuum</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/effective+quantum+field+theory'>effective quantum field theory</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/renormalization'>renormalization</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/BV-BRST+formalism'>BV-BRST formalism</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a 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amplitude</a></p> <ul> <li><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/on-shell+recursion'>on-shell recursion</a>, <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/KLT+relations'>KLT relations</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Structural phenomena</p> <ul> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/universality+class'>universality class</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/quantum+anomaly'>quantum anomaly</a></p> <ul> <li><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Green-Schwarz+mechanism'>Green-Schwarz mechanism</a></li> </ul> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/instanton'>instanton</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/spontaneously+broken+symmetry'>spontaneously broken symmetry</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Kaluza-Klein+mechanism'>Kaluza-Klein mechanism</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/integrable+system'>integrable systems</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/holonomic+quantum+field'>holonomic quantum fields</a></p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Types of quantum field thories</p> <ul> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/topological+quantum+field+theory'>TQFT</a></p> <ul> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/D%3D2+TQFT'>2d TQFT</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Dijkgraaf-Witten+theory'>Dijkgraaf-Witten theory</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Chern-Simons+theory'>Chern-Simons theory</a></p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/TCFT'>TCFT</a></p> <ul> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/A-model'>A-model</a>, <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/B-model'>B-model</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/mirror+symmetry'>homological mirror symmetry</a></p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/QFT+with+defects'>QFT with defects</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/conformal+field+theory'>conformal field theory</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/%281%2C1%29-dimensional+Euclidean+field+theories+and+K-theory'>(1,1)-dimensional Euclidean field theories and K-theory</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/%282%7C1%29-dimensional+Euclidean+field+theory'>(2,1)-dimensional Euclidean field theory and elliptic cohomology</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/conformal+field+theory'>CFT</a></p> <ul> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Wess-Zumino-Witten+model'>WZW model</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/D%3D6+N%3D%282%2C0%29+SCFT'>6d 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href='/nlab/show/diff/Riemann+hypothesis+and+physics'>Riemann hypothesis and physics</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <div> <p> <a href='/nlab/edit/physicscontents'>Edit this sidebar</a> </p> </div></div> </div> </div> <h1 id='contents'>Contents</h1> <div class='maruku_toc'><ul><li><a href='#idea'>Idea</a></li><li><a href='#examples'>Examples</a></li><li><a href='#references'>References</a></li></ul></div> <h2 id='idea'>Idea</h2> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/number+theory'>number theory</a> and <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/physics'>physics</a></p> <h2 id='examples'>Examples</h2> <ul> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Riemann+hypothesis+and+physics'>Riemann hypothesis and physics</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Langlands+program'>Langlands duality</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/p-adic+physics'>p-adic physics</a></p><ins class='diffins'> </ins><ins class='diffins'><ul> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/p-adic+string+theory'>p-adic string theory</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/p-adic+AdS%2FCFT+correspondence'>p-adic AdS-CFT</a></p> </li> </ul></ins> </li> </ul> <h2 id='references'>References</h2> <p>The relation between <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/string+theory'>string theory</a> with its <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/scattering+amplitude'>scattering amplitudes</a> on <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Riemann+surface'>Riemann surfaces</a> and the theory of <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/automorphic+form'>automorphic forms</a> was maybe first highlighted in</p> <ul> <li id='Witten88'><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Edward+Witten'>Edward Witten</a>, <em>Quantum field theory, Grassmannians, and algebraic curves</em>, Comm. Math. Phys. Volume 113, Number 4 (1988), 529-700 (<a href='http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.cmp/1104160350'>Euclid</a>)</li> </ul> <p>Reviews include</p> <ul> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Matthew+Watkins'>Matthew Watkins</a>, <em><a href='http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/mrwatkin/zeta/physics.htm'>Number theory and physics archive</a></em></p> </li> <li> <p><a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Michael+Atiyah'>Michael Atiyah</a>, <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Robbert+Dijkgraaf'>Robbert Dijkgraaf</a>, <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/diff/Nigel+Hitchin'>Nigel Hitchin</a> <em>Geometry and physics</em>, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2010 368, doi: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0227 (<a href='http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/368/1914/913.full.pdf'>pdf</a>)</p> <p>(despite the title, this is really mostly about number theory/enumerative geometry and physics)</p> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="revisedby"> <p> Last revised on June 19, 2017 at 15:18:17. 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