Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism as a theory of integration for polyvectors
Mathematical Physics
2016-09-09 v1 math.MP
Abstract
The Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formalism is a powerful generalization of the BRST approach of gauge theories and allows to treat more general field theories. We will see how, starting from the case of a finite dimensional configuration space, we can see this formalism as a theory of integration for polyvectors over the shifted cotangent bundle of the configuration space, and arrive at a formula that admits a generalization to the infinite dimensional case. The process of gauge fixing and the observables of the theory will be presented.
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@article{arxiv.1609.02326,
title = {Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism as a theory of integration for polyvectors},
author = {Pierre J. Clavier and Viet Dang Nguyen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.02326},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
11 pages, uses Tikz, to be published in the proceedings of the 2015 Villa de Leyva summer school