Classical BV theories on manifolds with boundary

DOI10.1007/S00220-014-2145-3zbMATH Open1302.81141arXiv1201.0290OpenAlexW3104982181MaRDI QIDQ466030FDOQ466030

Authors: Pavel Mnev, Nicolai Reshetikhin, Alberto Cattaneo 

Publication date: 24 October 2014

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we extend the classical BV framework to gauge theories on spacetime manifolds with boundary. In particular, we connect the BV construction in the bulk with the BFV construction on the boundary and we develop its extension to strata of higher codimension in the case of manifolds with corners. We present several examples including electrodynamics, Yang-Mills theory and topological field theories coming from the AKSZ construction, in particular, the Chern-Simons theory, the $BF$ theory, and the Poisson sigma model. This paper is the first step towards developing the perturbative quantization of such theories on manifolds with boundary in a way consistent with gluing.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.0290

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zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacesgauge theorytopological invariantsBatalin-Vilkovisky frameworkChern-Somons theoryperturbative quantizationspacetime manifolds with boundary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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