Covariant canonical formalism for four-dimensional BF theory

DOI10.1063/1.2161805zbMath1111.81136arXivgr-qc/0402041MaRDI QIDQ3441597

Merced Montesinos, Mauricio Mondragón

Publication date: 16 May 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0402041

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

81T45: Topological field theories in quantum mechanics

58E99: Variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces

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