Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism as a theory of integration for polyvectors

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-65427-0_8MaRDI QIDQ4601541zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Viet Dang Nguyen, Pierre J. Clavier

Publication date 16 January 2018

Published in Quantization, Geometry and Noncommutative Structures in Mathematics and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02326

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

Abstract: The Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formalism is a powerful generalization of the BRST approach of gauge theories and allows to treat more general field theories. We will see how, starting from the case of a finite dimensional configuration space, we can see this formalism as a theory of integration for polyvectors over the shifted cotangent bundle of the configuration space, and arrive at a formula that admits a generalization to the infinite dimensional case. The process of gauge fixing and the observables of the theory will be presented.

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