Pretty Good Gravity
arXiv:math/0007018
Abstract
A theory of topological gravity is a homotopy-theoretic representation of the Segal-Tillmann topologification of a two-category with cobordisms as morphisms. This note describes a relatively accessible example of such a thing, suggested by the wall-crossing formulas of Donaldson theory.
Talk at the RIMS Symposium on algebraic geometry and integrable systems related to string theory, Kyoto, June 12-16, 2000. This final version is to appear in Adv. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics