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In earlier work, we derived an expression for a partition function ?(λ), and gave a set of analytic hypotheses under which ?(λ) does not depend on a parameter λ. The proof that ?(λ) is invariant involved entire cyclic cohomology and K-theory. Here we give a direct proof that . The considerations apply to non-commutative geometry, to super-symmetric quantum theory, to string theory, and to generalizations of these theories to underlying quantum spaces.
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Received: 12 January 1998 / Accepted: 1 May 1999
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Jaffe, A. Quantum Invariants. Comm Math Phys 209, 1–12 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00005524
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00005524