Formal Maurer-Cartan structures: from CFT to classical field equations

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2007/12/098zbMATH Open1246.81311arXiv0708.0955OpenAlexW2023373232MaRDI QIDQ446664FDOQ446664

Authors: Anton M. Zeitlin 

Publication date: 8 September 2012

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

Abstract: We show how the well-known classical field equations as Einstein and Yang-Mills ones, which arise as the conformal invariance conditions of certain two-dimensional theories, expanded up to the second order in the formal parameter, can be reformulated as Generalized/formal Maurer-Cartan equations (GMC), where the differential is the BRST operator of String theory. We introduce the bilinear operations which are present in GMC, and study their properties, allowing us to find the symmetries of the resulting equations which will be naturally identified with the diffeomorphism and gauge symmetries of Einstein and Yang-Mills equations correspondingly.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0955

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zbMATH Keywords

Einstein equationsYang-Mills equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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