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Towards equivariant Yang-Mills theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-08-21 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We study four dimensional gauge theories in the context of an equivariant extension of the Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formalism. We discuss the embedding of BV Yang-Mills (YM) theory into a larger BV theory and their relation. Partial integration in the equivariant BV setting (BV push-forward map) is performed explicitly for the abelian case. As result, we obtain a non-local homological generalization of the Cartan calculus and a non-local extension of the abelian YM BV action which satisfies the equivariant master equation.

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@article{arxiv.2210.00372,
  title  = {Towards equivariant Yang-Mills theory},
  author = {Francesco Bonechi and Alberto S. Cattaneo and Maxim Zabzine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.00372},
  year   = {2023}
}

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27 pages, refs added, published version

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