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Semiclassical quantization of classical field theories

Mathematical Physics 2020-03-13 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

These lectures are an introduction to formal semiclassical quantization of classical field theory. First we develop the Hamiltonian formalism for classical field theories on space time with boundary. It does not have to be a cylinder as in the usual Hamiltonian framework. Then we outline formal semiclassical quantization in the finite dimensional case. Towards the end we give an example of such a quantization in the case of Abelian Chern-Simons theory.

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@article{arxiv.1311.2490,
  title  = {Semiclassical quantization of classical field theories},
  author = {Alberto S. Cattaneo and Pavel Mnev and Nicolai Reshetikhin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.2490},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Based on the Les Houches lectures given by authors in February 2012

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