On Polyakov's basic variational formula for loop spaces

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(99)80006-8MaRDI QIDQ1853800zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ioannis P. Zois

Publication date 22 January 2003

Published in Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9703069

zbMATH Keywords

Hochschild homologyloop spacede Rham cohomologyalgebra of differential formsiterated integral mapPolyakov's basic variational formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(Co)homology of rings and associative algebras (e.g., Hochschild, cyclic, dihedral, etc.) (16E40) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) (K)-theory and homology; cyclic homology and cohomology (19D55) Homotopy and topological questions for infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B05) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15) Manifolds of mappings (58D15)

Abstract: We use the homological algebra context to give a more rigorous proof of Polyakov's basic variational formula for loop spaces.

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