The Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism and the determinant line bundle

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2020.103792MaRDI QIDQ2197173zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eugene Rabinovich

Publication date 28 August 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10894

zbMATH Keywords

Batalin-Vilkovisky formalismdeterminant line bundlefactorization algebrasmassless free fermion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: Given a smooth family of massless free fermions parametrized by a base manifold $B$, we show that the (mathematically rigorous) Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization of the observables of this family gives rise to the determinant line bundle for the corresponding family of Dirac operators.

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