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BV Yang-Mills as a Homotopy Chern-Simons via SFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-03-31 v4 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We show explicitly how BV Yang-Mills action emerges as a homotopy generalization of Chern-Simons theory from the algebraic constructions arising from String Field Theory.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0709.1411,
  title  = {BV Yang-Mills as a Homotopy Chern-Simons via SFT},
  author = {Anton M. Zeitlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.1411},
  year   = {2009}
}

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LaTeX2e, 22 pages, minor revisions, typos corrected, references added, Int. J. Mod. Physics A, published version