Operads, configuration spaces and quantization
Quantum Algebra
2011-04-22 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
Algebraic Geometry
math.MP
Abstract
We review several well-known operads of compactified configuration spaces and construct several new such operads, C, in the category of smooth manifolds with corners whose complexes of fundamental chains give us (i) the 2-coloured operad of A-infinity algebras and their homotopy morphisms, (ii) the 2-coloured operad of L-infinity algebras and their homotopy morphisms, and (iii) the 4-coloured operad of open-closed homotopy algebras and their homotopy morphisms. Two gadgets - a (coloured) operad of Feynman graphs and a de Rham field theory on C - are introduced and used to construct quantized representations of the (fundamental) chain operad of C which are given by Feynman type sums over graphs and depend on choices of propagators.
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@article{arxiv.1005.3381,
title = {Operads, configuration spaces and quantization},
author = {S. A. Merkulov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.3381},
year = {2011}
}
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58 pages