Equivariance, BRST symmetry, and superspace

DOI10.1063/1.530683zbMATH Open0827.58019arXivhep-th/9403126OpenAlexW2169986188MaRDI QIDQ4837136FDOQ4837136

O. Tirkkonen, Antti J. Niemi

Publication date: 4 July 1995

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

Abstract: The structure of equivariant cohomology in non-abelian localization formulas and topological field theories is discussed. Equivariance is formulated in terms of a nilpotent BRST symmetry, and another nilpotent operator which restricts the BRST cohomology onto the equivariant, or basic sector. A superfield formulation is presented and connections to reducible (BFV) quantization of topological Yang-Mills theory are discussed.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

quantizationBRST symmetryequivariant cohomologytopological field theoriessuperfieldsnon-Abelian localizationtopological Yang- Mills theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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