A construction of observables for AKSZ sigma models

DOI10.1007/S11005-015-0788-4MaRDI QIDQ902083zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pavel Mnev

Publication date 7 January 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5751, http://doc.rero.ch/record/333018/files/11005_2015_Article_788.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

observablesBatalin-Vilkovisky formalismtopological field theoryQ-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Supermanifolds and graded manifolds (58A50)

Abstract: A construction of gauge-invariant observables is suggested for a class of topological field theories, the AKSZ sigma-models. The observables are associated to extensions of the target Q-manifold of the sigma model to a Q-bundle over it with additional Hamiltonian structure in fibers.

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