The partition function of a degenerate functional

DOI10.1007/BF01223197zbMath0429.58015OpenAlexW2010905129MaRDI QIDQ1137808

Albert S. Schwarz

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 theoryselfadjoint operatorsgauge theoriestrace class operatoranomaliesdegenerate Lagrangiansdegenerate quadratic functionalgauge conditionsRay-Singer torsiondeterminant of infinite dimensional operatorselliptic differential operators on manifoldsinfinite-dimensional group of local gauge transformationsinstanton contribution in Schwinger functionspartition function of action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear operators belonging to operator ideals (nuclear, (p)-summing, in the Schatten-von Neumann classes, etc.) (47B10) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Linear symmetric and selfadjoint operators (unbounded) (47B25) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90) Global differential geometry (53C99) Differential complexes (58J10)

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