Four-dimensional Yang-Mills theory as a deformation of topological \(BF\) theory

DOI10.1007/s002200050465zbMath0927.58023arXivhep-th/9705123OpenAlexW3104353858MaRDI QIDQ1296237

Francesco Fucito, Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Maurizio Rinaldi, Alberto Sergio Cattaneo, Mauro Zeni, Alessandro Tanzini, Mairizio Martellini

Publication date: 21 July 1999

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9705123

zbMATH Keywords

deformation of topological BF theoryfour-dimensional Yang-Mills theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05)

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