Odd Chern-Simons theory, Lie algebra cohomology and characteristic classes

DOI10.1007/S00220-010-1102-ZzbMATH Open1214.81262arXiv0912.1243OpenAlexW3104777731WikidataQ115388599 ScholiaQ115388599MaRDI QIDQ608912FDOQ608912

Authors: Jian Qiu, Maxim Zabzine 

Publication date: 29 November 2010

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

Abstract: We investigate the generic 3D topological field theory within AKSZ-BV framework. We use the Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formalism to construct explicitly cocycles of the Lie algebra of formal Hamiltonian vector fields and we argue that the perturbative partition function gives rise to secondary characteristic classes. We investigate a toy model which is an odd analogue of Chern-Simons theory, and we give some explicit computation of two point functions and show that its perturbation theory is identical to the Chern-Simons theory. We give concrete example of the homomorphism taking Lie algebra cocycles to Q-characteristic classes, and we reinterpreted the Rozansky-Witten model in this light.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1243

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

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