Introduction to the BV-BFV formalism
Mathematical Physics
2020-10-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
math.MP
Quantum Algebra
Symplectic Geometry
Abstract
These notes give an introduction to the mathematical framework of the Batalin-Vilkovisky and Batalin-Fradkin-Vilkovisky formalisms. Some of the presented content was given as a mini course by the first author at the 2018 QSPACE conference in Benasque.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1905.08047,
title = {Introduction to the BV-BFV formalism},
author = {Alberto S. Cattaneo and Nima Moshayedi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.08047},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
63 pages, 10 figures, minor changes made (added some references, corrected some typos and some small mistakes)