The partition function for topological field theories

DOI10.1006/APHY.1994.1043MaRDI QIDQ1323819zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Gegenberg, Gabor Kunstatter

Publication date 5 September 1994

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9304016

zbMATH Keywords

Hodge decompositionnon-abelian flat vector bundlespartition functionRay-Singer torsion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

Abstract: We use a Hodge decomposition and its generalization to non-abelian flat vector bundles to calculate the partition function for abelian and non- abelian BF theories in $n$ dimensions. This enables us to provide a simple proof that the partition function is related to the Ray-Singer torsion defined on flat vector bundles for all odd-dimensional manifolds, and is equal to unity for even dimensions.

Review text

We use a Hodge decomposition and its generalization to non-abelian flat vector bundles to calculate the partition function for abelian and non- abelian BF theories in \(n\) dimensions. This enables us to provide a simple proof that the partition function is related to the Ray-Singer torsion defined on flat vector bundles for all odd-dimensional manifolds and is equal to unity for even dimensions.

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