Differential cohomology and locally covariant quantum field theory

DOI10.1142/S0129055X17500039zbMath1360.81232arXiv1406.1514MaRDI QIDQ2958464

Christian Becker, Richard J. Szabo, Alexander Schenkel

Publication date: 2 February 2017

Published in: Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.1514

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic quantum field theorydifferential cohomologygeneralized abelian gauge theoryglobal hyperbolic spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60) Generalized (extraordinary) homology and cohomology theories in algebraic topology (55N20) Infinite-dimensional manifolds (46T05) Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08)

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