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These papers arose from my collaboration with Raoul during my stay at Harvard. I was there as a postdoc in physics, in the group of Arthur Jaffe. It was the critical time when I had to decide what to do with my life, including whether I should complete my move to mathematics. At the time I was working on perturbative topological field theories and one day, while I was alone in my office, I was visited by a tall guy who said he was interested in what I was doing and wished to start a collaboration to apply my results.
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Cattaneo, A.S. (2017). Integral Invariants of 3-Manifolds (Commentary on [111], [114]). In: Tu, L. (eds) Raoul Bott: Collected Papers . Contemporary Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51781-0_13
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