Lie crossed modules and gauge-invariant actions for 2-BF theories

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2011.v15.n4.a4zbMath1296.81062arXiv1006.0903MaRDI QIDQ451139

João Faria Martins, Aleksandar Miković

Publication date: 21 September 2012

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.0903

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10)

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