On the Mathai-Quillen formalism of topological sigma models

DOI10.1016/0393-0440(94)00046-8zbMath0838.58006arXivhep-th/9406103OpenAlexW3106456424MaRDI QIDQ1907139

Siye Wu

Publication date: 22 February 1996

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9406103

zbMATH Keywords

topological field theorypseudo-holomorphic curvesMathai-Quillen formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

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