CHEN INTEGRALS, GENERALIZED LOOPS AND LOOP CALCULUS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X94001795zbMath0988.58500arXivhep-th/9305173MaRDI QIDQ2775249

João N. Tavares

Publication date: 26 February 2002

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9305173

zbMATH Keywords

variational derivative; area derivative; end point derivative; generalized loop; iterated line integral

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory

22E67: Loop groups and related constructions, group-theoretic treatment

83C45: Quantization of the gravitational field

83C60: Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism

58B25: Group structures and generalizations on infinite-dimensional manifolds

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