The Mathai-Quillen formalism and topological field theory

DOI10.1016/0393-0440(93)90049-KzbMATH Open0780.57024arXivhep-th/9203026OpenAlexW2087676549MaRDI QIDQ687733FDOQ687733

Authors: Matthias Blau 

Publication date: 6 February 1994

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: These lecture notes give an introductory account of an approach to cohomological field theory due to Atiyah and Jeffrey which is based on the construction of Gaussian shaped Thom forms by Mathai and Quillen. Topics covered are: an explanation of the Mathai-Quillen formalism for finite dimensional vector bundles; the definition of regularized Euler numbers of infinite dimensional vector bundles; interpretation of supersymmetric quantum mechanics as the regularized Euler number of loop space; the Atiyah-Jeffrey interpretation of Donaldson theory; the construction of topological gauge theories from infinite dimensional vector bundles over spaces of connections.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9203026

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zbMATH Keywords

supersymmetric quantum mechanicscohomological field theoryDonaldson theoryGaussian shaped Thom formsMathai-Quillen formalism for finite dimensional vector bundlesregularized Euler number of loop spaceregularized Euler numbers of infinite dimensional vector bundlesspaces of connectionstopological gauge theories from infinite dimensional vector bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homology and cohomology theories in algebraic topology (55N99) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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