One-dimensional Chern-Simons theory

DOI10.1007/S00220-011-1290-1MaRDI QIDQ644752zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anton Alekseev, Pavel Mnev

Publication date 7 November 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2111, https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/71558/13/ZORA_NL_71558.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

TQFTBatalin-Vilkovisky formalismChern-Simons theoryquantum master equationeffective actionoperator formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

Abstract: We study a one-dimensional toy version of the Chern-Simons theory. We construct its simplicial version which comprises features of a low-energy effective gauge theory and of a topological quantum field theory in the sense of Atiyah.

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