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61Conformal geometry — In mathematics, conformal geometry is the study of the set of angle preserving (conformal) transformations on a space. In two real dimensions, conformal geometry is precisely the geometry of Riemann surfaces. In more than two dimensions,… …
62List of differential geometry topics — This is a list of differential geometry topics. See also glossary of differential and metric geometry and list of Lie group topics. Contents 1 Differential geometry of curves and surfaces 1.1 Differential geometry of curves 1.2 Differential… …
63Cobordism — A cobordism (W;M,N). In mathematics, cobordism is a fundamental equivalence relation on the class of compact manifolds of the same dimension, set up using the concept of the boundary of a manifold. Two manifolds are cobordant if their disjoint… …
64Topological quantum field theory — A topological quantum field theory (or topological field theory or TQFT) is a quantum field theory which computes topological invariants.Although TQFTs were invented by physicists (notably Edward Witten), they are primarily of mathematical… …
65Glossary of differential geometry and topology — This is a glossary of terms specific to differential geometry and differential topology. The following two glossaries are closely related: *Glossary of general topology *Glossary of Riemannian and metric geometry.See also: *List of differential… …
66General covariance — In theoretical physics, general covariance (also known as diffeomorphism covariance or general invariance) is the invariance of the form of physical laws under arbitrary differentiable coordinate transformations. The essential idea is that… …
67First class constraint — In Hamiltonian mechanics, consider a symplectic manifold M with a smooth Hamiltonian over it (for field theories, M would be infinite dimensional). Poisson bracketsSuppose we have some constraints : f i(x)=0, for n smooth functions :{ f i } {i=… …
68Teleparallelism — (also called distant parallelism and teleparallel gravity), was an attempt by Einstein to unify electromagnetism and gravity. The idea is to use a geometry with a pseudo Riemannian metric of signature (3,1), vanishing curvature, and non vanishing …
69Polyakov action — In physics, the Polyakov action is the two dimensional action of a conformal field theory describing the worldsheet of a string in string theory. It was introduced by S.Deser and B.Zumino and independently by L.Brink, P.Di Vecchia and P.S.Howe… …
70G-structure — In differential geometry, a G structure on an n manifold M , for a given structure group [Which is a Lie group G o GL(n,mathbf{R}) mapping to the general linear group GL(n,mathbf{R}). This is often but not always a Lie subgroup; for instance, for …
