Appearance of universal bundle structure in four-dimensional topological gravity

DOI10.1016/0393-0440(93)90034-CMaRDI QIDQ689446zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Siye Wu

Publication date 10 December 1993

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0393-0440(93)90034-c

zbMATH Keywords

conformal gauge fixingmoduli spacetopological quantum field theoryuniversal fibration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Review text

The author calculates the connection and curvature of the universal fibration of Riemannian manifolds, and compares them with the BRST algebra of four dimensional topological gravity. The paper contains also a series of considerations on the dimension of the moduli space, conformal gauge fixing and the construction of non-trivial observables.

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