@BalarkaSen What kind of gauge theory? Physics? Math?

@Danu Math for the time being.

Don't take me seriously. This is mostly post-workshop euphoria; there were some talks on gauge theory on there and I got a little excited by it.

It'll wear off, but I am going to learn a little bit just because I can.

Nice man

What are you looking at?

Seiberg-Witten? Donaldson?

I have typed notes on SW theory if you're interested

(should be accessible to you)

I was suggested both by Mike lol

Oh neat I could use those

So Donaldson's approach is somehow technically more difficult

but apparently more natural

yeah i dunno analysis

Right

My notes are very light on the analysis haha

currently i'm just looking at my talk notes and figuring out random shit

We skipped over most of that, which I think is fine as long as you don't intend to focus on proving these theorems yourself :P

Sorta black-boxing it but not completely

uh-huh

In any case, I can send you what I have

Is it on your dropbox?

I think these notes are mostly based on an unpublished book of my supervisor

yes

no

but I can put it in there

ah ok. well you can send them if they're not too long

i find dropbox hard to handle

if it's too long put it on dropbox anyway

It's about 100 pages IIRC

That shouldn't be much

The notes are purely SW theory, but there's a small section regarding Donaldson's original proof of his famous theorem on diagonalization of definite intersection forms

mhm

SW theory is in a precise sense equivalent (there's a formula relating the SW invariants to Donaldson's invariants) and a bit easier because the moduli space of solutiosn to the SW equations is nicer than the moduli space needed for Donaldson theory, in particular it is compact

So that's why we did that, and why I think most people do that

instead of Donaldson's original approach

D'you get my email?

Gottem, thanks

If you do end up reading them, please let me know about mistakes you find

(you probably will find some)

I can also supply you with exercises

and solutions

@Danu Right. I got lost on the ASD moduli space bit of the talk I heard

also hi @ACuriousMind

That was the last day in a series of four days or so

@BalarkaSen Right. So that moduli space is kind of more shitty because of these non-compactness things

Cones 'n' stuff

uhhuh

@Danu Would be fun. But let me first start something :P

A'ight

@ACuriousMind Would you be willing to do me a favor?

or @Danu

I generally avoid doing much detailed car stuff in intro physics, because almost everything about driving only fits in the neat Physics 101 boxes under the most sedate of conditions.

Case in point:

COHERENT apparently has a physics result

From the abstract and figures this looks very cool, indeed.

Quantum computing proposal on area 51 - upvote questions and follow =D it's very close to entering commit phase, we just need some upvotes on questions. every bit helps

@BalarkaSen ::opens the dusty pages of Federer:: God help my soul