One-dimensional Chern-Simons theory and the A genus

DOI10.2140/AGT.2014.14.419zbMATH Open1305.81114arXiv1110.3533OpenAlexW4253797766MaRDI QIDQ740543FDOQ740543

Authors: Owen Gwilliam, Ryan E. Grady 

Publication date: 3 September 2014

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct a Chern-Simons gauge theory for dg Lie and L-infinity algebras on any one-dimensional manifold and quantize this theory using the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism and Costello's renormalization techniques. Koszul duality and derived geometry allow us to encode topological quantum mechanics, a nonlinear sigma model of maps from a 1-manifold into a cotangent bundle T*X, as such a Chern-Simons theory. Our main result is that the partition function of this theory is naturally identified with the A-genus of X. From the perspective of derived geometry, our quantization construct a volume form on the derived loop space which can be identified with the A-class.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.3533

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zbMATH Keywords

renormalization group flowChern-Simons theoryBV formalismtopological quantum mechanics\(\widehat {A}\) genus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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