Lectures on Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism and its applications in topological quantum field theory

2017/07/25 by Pavel Mnëv, Mnev, Pavel · 4 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Topics in Algebra #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1707.08096

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Abstract

Lecture notes for the course "Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism and applications in topological quantum field theory" given at the University of Notre Dame in the Fall 2016 for a mathematical audience. In these lectures we give a slow introduction to the perturbative path integral for gauge theories in Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism and the associated mathematical concepts.

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