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Re: Lie algebra cohomology
- Subject: Re: Lie algebra cohomology
- From: kristk@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul D. Shocklee)
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 04:23:50 GMT
- Approved: mmcirvin@world.std.com (sci.physics.research)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.research
- Organization: Princeton University
- References: <970v75$lgv$1@news.state.mn.us>
- Sender: mmcirvin@world.std.com (Matthew J McIrvin)
Thomas Larsson (Thomas.Larsson@hdd.se) wrote:
> I guess that nobody will be really surprised that I agree with everything
> said in the Woit paper (http://www.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0102051).
The Woit paper seems more than a bit naive. He waxes eloquent about gauge
theory, the Dirac operator, the Atiyah-Singer index theorem, and K-theory,
but he doesn't seem to know that supersymmetry and string theory have given
unique insights into and applications of all of these topics.
His strongest argument seems to be that string theory remains incompletely
undefined at present, but no one has disputed that.
--
Paul Shocklee
Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Princeton University
Researcher, Science Institute, Dunhaga 3, 107 Reykjavík, Iceland
Phone: +354-525-4429