Path integration in two-dimensional topological quantum field theory

DOI10.1063/1.531346zbMATH Open0852.58011OpenAlexW2070410098MaRDI QIDQ4871933FDOQ4871933

Authors Stephen Sawin

Publication date 8 April 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9505040

zbMATH Keywords

Euler numbermeasurepath integraltopological quantum field theoryspace of metricscompact 2-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integration on manifolds; measures on manifolds (58C35) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30)

Abstract: A positive, diffeomorphism-invariant generalized measure on the space of metrics of a two-dimensional smooth manifold is constructed. We use the term generalized measure analogously with the generalized measures of Ashtekar and Lewandowski and of Baez. A family of actions is presented which, when integrated against this measure, give the two-dimensional axiomatic topological quantum field theories, or TQFT's, in terms of which Durhuus and Jonsson decompose every two-dimensional unitary TQFT as a direct sum.

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