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Context

Physics

physics, mathematical physics, philosophy of physics

Surveys, textbooks and lecture notes

• (higher) category theory and physics
• geometry of physics
• books and reviews, physics resources

theory (physics), model (physics)

experiment, measurement, computable physics

• mechanics
  • mass, charge, momentum, angular momentum, moment of inertia
  • dynamics on Lie groups
    * rigid body dynamics
• field (physics)
  • Lagrangian mechanics
    * configuration space, state
    * action functional, Lagrangian
    * covariant phase space, Euler-Lagrange equations
  • Hamiltonian mechanics
    * phase space
    * symplectic geometry
    * Poisson manifold
    * symplectic manifold
    * symplectic groupoid
    * multisymplectic geometry
    * n-symplectic manifold
  • spacetime
    * smooth Lorentzian manifold
    * special relativity
    * general relativity
    * gravity
    * supergravity, dilaton gravity
    * black hole
• Classical field theory
  • classical physics
    * classical mechanics
    * waves and optics
    * thermodynamics
• Quantum Mechanics
  • in terms of ∞-compact categories
  • quantum information
  • Hamiltonian operator
  • density matrix
  • Kochen-Specker theorem
  • Bell's theorem
  • Gleason's theorem
• Quantization
  • geometric quantization
  • deformation quantization
  • path integral quantization
  • semiclassical approximation
• Quantum Field Theory
  • Axiomatizations
    * algebraic QFT
    * Wightman axioms
    * Haag-Kastler axioms
    * operator algebra
    * local net
    * conformal net
    * Reeh-Schlieder theorem
    * Osterwalder-Schrader theorem
    * PCT theorem
    * Bisognano-Wichmann theorem
    * modular theory
    * spin-statistics theorem
    * boson, fermion
    * functorial QFT
    * cobordism
    * (∞,n)-category of cobordisms
    * cobordism hypothesis-theorem
    * extended topological quantum field theory
  • Tools
    * perturbative quantum field theory, vacuum
    * effective quantum field theory
    * renormalization
    * BV-BRST formalism
    * geometric ∞-function theory
  • particle physics
    * phenomenology
    * models
    * standard model of particle physics
    * fields and quanta
    * Grand Unified Theories, MSSM
    * scattering amplitude
    * on-shell recursion, KLT relations
  • Structural phenomena
    * universality class
    * quantum anomaly
    * Green-Schwarz mechanism
    * instanton
    * spontaneously broken symmetry
    * Kaluza-Klein mechanism
    * integrable systems
    * holonomic quantum fields
  • Types of quantum field thories
    * TQFT
    * 2d TQFT
    * Dijkgraaf-Witten theory
    * Chern-Simons theory
    * TCFT
    * A-model, B-model
    * homological mirror symmetry
    * QFT with defects
    * conformal field theory
    * (1,1)-dimensional Euclidean field theories and K-theory
    * (2,1)-dimensional Euclidean field theory and elliptic cohomology
    * CFT
    * WZW model
    * 6d (2,0)-supersymmetric QFT
    * gauge theory
    * field strength
    * gauge group, gauge transformation, gauge fixing
    * examples
    * electromagnetic field, QED
    * electric charge
    * magnetic charge
    * Yang-Mills field, QCD
    * Yang-Mills theory
    * spinors in Yang-Mills theory
    * topological Yang-Mills theory
    * Kalb-Ramond field
    * supergravity C-field
    * RR field
    * first-order formulation of gravity
    * general covariance
    * supergravity
    * D'Auria-Fre formulation of supergravity
    * gravity as a BF-theory
    * sigma-model
    * particle, relativistic particle, fundamental particle, spinning particle, superparticle
    * string, spinning string, superstring
    * membrane
    * AKSZ theory
• String Theory
  • string theory results applied elsewhere
• number theory and physics
  • Riemann hypothesis and physics

Contents

• Idea
• Related concepts
• References

Idea

The year is a physical unit of time.

• second

References

• Wikipedia, Year

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