AKSZ models of semistrict higher gauge theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2013)014zbMath1342.81178arXiv1112.2819OpenAlexW2964201013MaRDI QIDQ302879

Roberto Zucchini

Publication date: 12 August 2016

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.2819

zbMATH Keywords

topological field theoriesdifferential geometryBRST quantizationalgebraic geometryBRST symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

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