Equivariance, BRST symmetry, and superspace

DOI10.1063/1.530683zbMath0827.58019arXivhep-th/9403126OpenAlexW2169986188MaRDI QIDQ4837136

Antti J. Niemi, Olav Tirkkonen

Publication date: 4 July 1995

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9403126

zbMATH Keywords

topological field theoriesquantizationequivariant cohomologyBRST symmetrysuperfieldsnon-Abelian localizationtopological Yang- Mills theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Homology with local coefficients, equivariant cohomology (55N25)

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ON THE "UNIVERSAL" N=2 SUPERSYMMETRY OF CLASSICAL MECHANICS ⋮ Lectures on \(2\)D Yang-Mills theory, equivariant cohomology and topological field theories ⋮ INTEGRABLE HIERARCHIES FROM BRST COHOMOLOGY ⋮ On the general structure of gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten terms.

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