# Jeff Harvey

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Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago

 76 Does Physics need non-analytic smooth functions? 39 Mathematical “urban legends” 31 Examples of non-rigorous but efficient mathematical methods in physics 24 Is the Mendeleev table explained in quantum mechanics? 19 What exactly is the relation between string theory and conformal field theory?

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 +10 Relation between TQFT and Wilson lines, boundary conditions, surface defects etc +20 Does Physics need non-analytic smooth functions? +10 Is there a relation between 4-dimentional general relativity and exotic smooth structures on $\mathbb{R}^4$? +10 What exactly is the relation between string theory and conformal field theory?

# 7 Questions

 27 The influence of string theory on mathematics for philosophers. 14 M24 moonshine for K3 10 Degree of Transcendentality and Feynman Diagrams 8 Elliptic genus for manifolds with boundary 4 More on Moonshine for the Thompson group and weakly holomorphic weight one half modular forms

# 57 Tags

 160 mp.mathematical-physics × 16 39 quantum-mechanics × 3 78 soft-question × 5 34 conformal-field-theory × 3 76 analytic-functions 32 string-theory × 5 76 ap.analysis-of-pdes 31 physics × 5 46 reference-request × 6 28 gr.group-theory × 6

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