Loop and path spaces and four-dimensional \(BF\) theories: connections, holonomies and observables

DOI10.1007/s002200050655zbMath0939.58009arXivmath/9803077OpenAlexW2037540461MaRDI QIDQ1809274

Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Maurizio Rinaldi, Alberto Sergio Cattaneo

Publication date: 16 December 1999

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9803077

zbMATH Keywords

pathsloopsconnectionsfour-dimensional BF theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Manifolds of mappings (58D15)

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