The partition function of a degenerate functional

DOI10.1007/BF01223197zbMath0429.58015MaRDI QIDQ1137808

Publication date: 1979

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

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/153794

zbMATH Keywords

quantum field theory; selfadjoint operators; gauge theories; trace class operator; anomalies; degenerate Lagrangians; degenerate quadratic functional; gauge conditions; Ray-Singer torsion; determinant of infinite dimensional operators; elliptic differential operators on manifolds; infinite-dimensional group of local gauge transformations; instanton contribution in Schwinger functions; partition function of action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

47B10: Linear operators belonging to operator ideals (nuclear, (p)-summing, in the Schatten-von Neumann classes, etc.)

47A10: Spectrum, resolvent

47B25: Linear symmetric and selfadjoint operators (unbounded)

81T05: Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras

58J90: Applications of PDEs on manifolds

53C99: Global differential geometry

58J10: Differential complexes

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