Loop observables for BF theories in any dimension and the cohomology of knots.

DOI10.1023/A:1007629020730MaRDI QIDQ1587210zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Alberto Cattaneo, Carlo A. Rossi

Publication date 2000

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0003073

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Simons theorytopological quantum field theoriesWilson loopsBF theorysuperconnectionsBatalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formalismChen's iterated integralscohomology of knotsghosts and antighostsghosts for ghosts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: A generalization of Wilson loop observables for BF theories in any dimension is introduced in the Batalin-Vilkovisky framework. The expectation values of these observables are cohomology classes of the space of imbeddings of a circle. One of the resulting theories discussed in the paper has only trivalent interactions and, irrespective of the actual dimension, looks like a 3-dimensional Chern-Simons theory.

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