topological quantum field theory

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concept

A topological quantum field theory is a quantum field theory whose observables and correlation functions depend only on the topology of the underlying spacetime manifold, not on its geometric details such as distances or angles.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
topological quantum field theory canonical 4
3-dimensional topological quantum field theory 1
cohomological field theory 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: topological quantum field theory
Generated description
A topological quantum field theory is a quantum field theory whose observables and correlation functions depend only on the topology of the underlying spacetime manifold, not on its geometric details such as distances or angles.

Instances (5)

Instance Via concept surface
Chern–Simons theory
Atiyah–Segal axioms definition of topological quantum field theory
Donaldson–Witten theory
BF theory
Rozansky–Witten theory