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Sheaf Topos Theory: A powerful setting for Lagrangian Field Theory

Mathematical Physics 2025-04-14 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Category Theory math.MP

Abstract

We provide an introductory exposition to the sheaf topos theoretic description of classical field theory motivated by the rigorous description of both (i)\bf{(i)} the variational calculus of (infinite dimensional) field-theoretic spaces, and (ii)\bf(ii) the non-triviality of classical fermionic field spaces. These considerations naturally lead to the definition of the sheaf topos of super smooth sets. We close by indicating natural generalizations necessary to include to the description of infinitesimal structure of field spaces and further the non-perturbative description of (higher) gauge fields.

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@article{arxiv.2504.08095,
  title  = {Sheaf Topos Theory: A powerful setting for Lagrangian Field Theory},
  author = {Grigorios Giotopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.08095},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

39 pages; Contribution to the Proceedings of the "Workshop on Noncommutative and Generalized Geometry in String Theory, Gauge Theory and Related Physical Models", Corfu Summer Institute on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity, Sep 17 - Sep 24 2024, Corfu, Greece

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