Matthias Blau (changes) in nLab

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Selected writings

On topological field theory:

• Danny Birmingham, Matthias Blau, Mark Rakowski, George Thompson, Topological field theory, Physics Reports 209 4–5 (1991) 129-340 [doi:10.1016/0370-1573(91)90117-5]

On D=2 Yang-Mills theory:

• Matthias Blau, George Thompson, Quantum Yang-Mills theory on arbitrary surfaces, International Journal of Modern Physics A 7 16 (1992) 3781–3806 [[doi:10.1142/S0217751X9200168X](https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X9200168X)]

On the supersymmetric WZW model using group algebra:

• Matthias Blau, George Thompson, Equivariant Kähler Geometry and Localization in the G/GG/G Model, Nucl. Phys. B 439 (1995) 367-394 [, arXiv:hep-th/9407042]

On general relativity (gravity):

• Matthias Blau, Lecture notes on general relativity (web)

Showing that the maximally supersymmetric pp-wave solution of D=11 supergravity is a Penrose limit of both the black M2-brane solution AdS 4×S 7AdS_4 \times S^7 as well as the black M5-brane solution AdS 7×S 4AdS_7 \times S^4:

• Matthias Blau, José Figueroa-O’Farrill, Christopher Hull, George Papadopoulos, Penrose limits and maximal supersymmetry, Class. Quant. Grav. 19 (2002) L87-L95 [[arXiv:hep-th/0201081](https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0201081), doi:10.1088/0264-9381/19/10/101]

On pp-wave spacetimes and Penrose limits:

• Matthias Blau, Plane waves and Penrose limits, 2011 (pdf, pdf)

On relation between Rozansky-Witten invariants and Seiberg-Witten invariants of 3-manifolds:

• Matthias Blau, George Thompson, On the Relationship between the Rozansky-Witten and the 3-Dimensional Seiberg-Witten Invariants, Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 5 (2002) 483-498 (arXiv:hep-th/0006244)

On Ray-Singer torsion and path integrals:

• Matthias Blau, Mbambu Kakona, George Thompson, On the Evaluation of the Ray-Singer Torsion Path Integral [[arXiv:2402.14437](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14437)]