Introduction to Graded Geometry, Batalin-Vilkovisky Formalism and their Applications

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Authors Jian Qiu, Maxim Zabzine

Publication date 15 November 2012

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2680

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zbMATH Keywords

Batalin-Vilkovisky formalismgraded symplectic geometrygraph homologyperturbation theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential graded algebras and applications (associative algebraic aspects) (16E45) Homological methods in Lie (super)algebras (17B55) Analysis on supermanifolds or graded manifolds (58C50)

Abstract: These notes are intended to provide a self-contained introduction to the basic ideas of finite dimensional Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formalism and its applications. A brief exposition of super- and graded geometries is also given. The BV-formalism is introduced through an odd Fourier transform and the algebraic aspects of integration theory are stressed. As a main application we consider the perturbation theory for certain finite dimensional integrals within BV-formalism. As an illustration we present a proof of the isomorphism between the graph complex and the Chevalley-Eilenberg complex of formal Hamiltonian vectors fields. We briefly discuss how these ideas can be extended to the infinite dimensional setting. These notes should be accessible to both physicists and mathematicians.

Cited in

(8)

• Introduction to graded geometry
• Graded generalized geometry
• A unified approach to standard and exotic dualizations through graded geometry
• Minimal models of quantum homotopy Lie algebras via the BV-formalism
• Weyl \(n\)-algebras
• Global theory of graded manifolds
• Geometric BV for twisted Courant sigma models and the BRST power finesse
• Equivariant localization in Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism

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