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As a child I was fascinated with the fact that you could not leave a bucket filled with water outside on a cold winter evening and expect to find it the same in the morning.
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I use lower case calligraphic
to denote the spatial dimensions of a system and upper case \(\mathcal {D}\) to denote the space-time dimensions of the same. Furthermore, e.g., 2
will denote a system with two spatial dimensions while a e.g., 3\(\mathcal {D}\) denotes a system with \(2+1\) dimensions.
to denote the spatial dimensions of a system and upper case 
will denote a system with two spatial dimensions while a e.g., 3References
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Klein Kvorning, T. (2018). Introduction. In: Topological Quantum Matter. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96764-6_1
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