Batalin-Vilkovisky integrals in finite dimensions

DOI10.1063/1.3278524MaRDI QIDQ3580899zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carlo Albert, Beatrice Bleile, Jürg Fröhlich

Publication date 13 August 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.0464

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: The Batalin-Vilkovisky method (BV) is the most powerful method to analyze functional integrals with (infinite-dimensional) gauge symmetries presently known. It has been invented to fix gauges associated with symmetries that do not close off-shell. Homological Perturbation Theory is introduced and used to develop the integration theory behind BV and to describe the BV quantization of a Lagrangian system with symmetries. Localization (illustrated in terms of Duistermaat-Heckman localization) as well as anomalous symmetries are discussed in the framework of BV.

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