Measures on Banach manifolds and supersymmetric quantum field theory

DOI10.1007/S00220-007-0359-3MaRDI QIDQ2466845zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan Weitsman

Publication date 16 January 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0509104

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative measure and integration (46L51) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We show how to construct measures on Banach manifolds associated to supersymmetric quantum field theories. These measures are mathematically well-defined objects inspired by the formal path integrals appearing in the physics literature on quantum field theory. We give three concrete examples of our construction. The first example is a family $m{u}_P^{s,t}$ of measures on a space of functions on the two-torus, parametrized by a polynomial $P$ (the Wess-Zumino-Landau-Ginzburg model). The second is a family $m{u}_c{G}^{s,t}$ of measures on a space $cG$ of maps from $P^1$ to a Lie group (the Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten model). Finally we study a family $m{u}_{M,G}^{s,t}$ of measures on the product of a space of connection s on the trivial principal bundle with structure group $G$ on a three-dimensional manifold $M$ with a space of $fg$-valued three-forms on $M.$ We show that these measures are positive, and that the measures $m{u}_c{G}^{s,t}$ are Borel probability measures. As an application we show that formulas arising from expectations in the measures $m{u}_c{G}^{s,1}$ reproduce formulas discovered by Frenkel and Zhu in the theory of vertex operator algebras. We conjecture that a similar computation for the measures $m{u}_{M,SU(2)}^{s,t},$ where $M$ is a homology three-sphere, will yield the Casson invariant of $M.$

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