Perturbative BV theories with Segal-like gluing
Mathematical Physics
2016-02-09 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Algebraic Topology
Geometric Topology
math.MP
Abstract
This is a survey of our program of perturbative quantization of gauge theories on manifolds with boundary compatible with cutting/pasting and with gauge symmetry treated by means of a cohomological resolution (Batalin-Vilkovisky) formalism. We also give two explicit quantum examples -- abelian BF theory and the Poisson sigma model. This exposition is based on a talk by P.M. at the ICMP 2015 in Santiago de Chile.
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@article{arxiv.1602.00741,
title = {Perturbative BV theories with Segal-like gluing},
author = {Alberto S. Cattaneo and Pavel Mnev and Nicolai Reshetikhin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.00741},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
8 pages, 1 figure. (Ver. 2 has a figure added and some typos corrected.)