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**[[physics]]**, [[mathematical physics]], [[philosophy of physics]]

## Surveys, textbooks and lecture notes

* _[[higher category theory and physics|(higher) category theory and physics]]_

* _[[geometry of physics]]_

* [[books and reviews in mathematical physics|books and reviews]], [[physics resources]]

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[[theory (physics)]], [[model (physics)]]

[[experiment]], [[measurement]], [[computable physics]]

* **[[mechanics]]**

* [[mass]], [[charge]], [[momentum]], [[angular momentum]], [[moment of inertia]]

* [[dynamics on Lie groups]]

* [[rigid body dynamics]]

* [[field (physics)]]

* [[Lagrangian mechanics]]

* [[configuration space]], [[state]]

* [[action functional]], [[Lagrangian]]

* [[covariant phase space]], [[Euler-Lagrange equations]]

* [[Hamiltonian mechanics]]

* [[phase space]]

* [[symplectic geometry]]

* [[Poisson manifold]]

* [[symplectic manifold]]

* [[symplectic groupoid]]

* [[multisymplectic geometry]]

* [[n-symplectic manifold]]

* [[spacetime]]

* [[smooth Lorentzian manifold]]

* [[special relativity]]

* [[general relativity]]

* [[gravity]]

* [[supergravity]], [[dilaton gravity]]

* [[black hole]]

* **[[classical field theory|Classical field theory]]**

* [[classical physics]]

* [[classical mechanics]]
    * [[waves]] and [[optics]]
    * [[thermodynamics]]
 
* **[[quantum mechanics|Quantum Mechanics]]**
  
  * [[quantum mechanics in terms of dagger-compact categories|in terms of ∞-compact categories]]

* [[quantum information]]

* [[Hamiltonian operator]]

* [[density matrix]]

* [[Kochen-Specker theorem]]

* [[Bell's theorem]]

* [[Gleason's theorem]]

* **[[quantization|Quantization]]**

* [[geometric quantization]]

* [[deformation quantization]]

* [[path integral|path integral quantization]]

* [[semiclassical approximation]]

* **[[quantum field theory|Quantum Field Theory]]**

* Axiomatizations

* [[AQFT|algebraic QFT]]

* [[Wightman axioms]]

* [[Haag-Kastler axioms]]

* [[operator algebra]]

* [[local net]]
  
          * [[conformal net]]

* [[Reeh-Schlieder theorem]]

* [[Osterwalder-Schrader theorem]]

* [[PCT theorem]]

* [[Bisognano-Wichmann theorem]]

* [[modular theory]]

* [[spin-statistics theorem]]

* [[boson]], [[fermion]]

* [[FQFT|functorial QFT]]

* [[cobordism]]

* [[(∞,n)-category of cobordisms]]

* [[cobordism hypothesis]]-theorem

* [[extended topological quantum field theory]]

* Tools

* [[perturbative quantum field theory]], [[vacuum]]

* [[effective quantum field theory]]

* [[renormalization]]

* [[BV-BRST formalism]]

* [[geometric ∞-function theory]]

* [[particle physics]]

* [[phenomenology]]

* [[model (in particle phyiscs)|models]]

* [[standard model of particle physics]]

* [[fields and quanta - table|fields and quanta]]

* [[GUT|Grand Unified Theories]], [[MSSM]]

* [[scattering amplitude]]

* [[on-shell recursion]], [[KLT relations]]

* Structural phenomena

* [[universality class]]

* [[quantum anomaly]]

* [[Green-Schwarz mechanism]]

* [[instanton]]

* [[spontaneously broken symmetry]]

* [[Kaluza-Klein mechanism]]

* [[integrable systems]]

* [[holonomic quantum fields]]

* Types of quantum field thories

* [[TQFT]]

* [[2d TQFT]]

* [[Dijkgraaf-Witten theory]]

* [[Chern-Simons theory]]

* [[TCFT]]

* [[A-model]], [[B-model]]

* [[homological mirror symmetry]]

* [[QFT with defects]]

* [[conformal field theory]]

* [[(1,1)-dimensional Euclidean field theories and K-theory]]

* [[(2,1)-dimensional Euclidean field theory|(2,1)-dimensional Euclidean field theory and elliptic cohomology]]

* [[CFT]]
  
      * [[WZW model]]

* [[6d (2,0)-supersymmetric QFT]]
 
    * [[gauge theory]]
      * [[field strength]]
      * [[gauge group]], [[gauge transformation]], [[gauge fixing]]
      * examples

* [[electromagnetic field]], [[QED]]
          * [[electric charge]]
          * [[magnetic charge]]

* [[Yang-Mills field]], [[QCD]]

* [[Yang-Mills theory]]
          * [[spinors in Yang-Mills theory]]
          * [[topological Yang-Mills theory]]

* [[Kalb-Ramond field]]
        * [[supergravity C-field]]
        * [[RR field]]
        * [[first-order formulation of gravity]]
          * [[general covariance]]
          * [[supergravity]]
            * [[D'Auria-Fre formulation of supergravity]]
          * [[gravity as a BF-theory]]

* [[sigma-model]]

* [[particle]], [[relativistic particle]], [[fundamental particle]], [[spinning particle]], [[superparticle]]

* [[string]], [[spinning string]], [[superstring]]

* [[membrane]]

* [[AKSZ theory]]

* [[string theory|String Theory]]

* [[string theory results applied elsewhere]]

* [[number theory and physics]]

* [[Riemann hypothesis and physics]]

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