@article{06148d0c11644981a1ede3312d8ee84a,
title = "Lectures on 2D yang-mills theory, equivariant cohomology and topological field theories",
author = "Stefan Cordes and Gregory Moore and Sanjaye Ramgoolam",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank M. Henningson, M. Marino, R,. Plesser, R,. Stora, W. Taylor and R. yon Unge for remarks on preliminary drafts of this paper. Many students at the Lcs Houches school also made useflll con> meats on the notes. We would also like to thank V.I. Arnold, S. Axelrod, T. Banks, M. Bershadsky, M. Douglas, S. Cecotti, R. Di-jkgraaf, I. Frenkel, E. Getzler, D. Gross, M. Guest, J. Harris, K. Intrilligator, M. Kho-vanov, V. Kazakov~ I. Kostov, H. Ooguri, R. Plesser, R. Rudd, V. Sadov, J. Segert, S. Shenker, R. Stora, W. Taylor, C. Vafa, and G. Zuckerman for discussions and correspondence. S.C. thanks the department of physics at Harvard University for hospitality. G. M. thanks the department of physics at Rutgers University for hospitality while part of these lectures were being written. He also thanks L. Alvarez-Gaumd and E. Verlinde for their hospitality at CERN. Finally G.M. thanks R. Dijkgraaf and I. Klebanov for the opportunity to present some of this material at. the 1994 Trieste Spring school and he thanks F. David and P. Ginsparg for the opportunity to present some of this material at the 1994 Les Houches school on fluctuating geometries. This work is supported by DOE grant DE-AC02-76ER03075, DOE grant DE-FG02-92ER25121, and by a Presidential Young Investigator Award.",
year = "1995",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1016/0920-5632(95)00434-B",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "41",
pages = "184--244",
journal = "Nuclear Physics B (Proceedings Supplements)",
issn = "0920-5632",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "1-3",
}