Loop observables for BF theories in any dimension and the cohomology of knots.

DOI10.1023/A:1007629020730zbMath1067.81564arXivmath/0003073OpenAlexW1605144924MaRDI QIDQ1587210

Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Carlo Antonio Rossi, Alberto Sergio Cattaneo

Publication date: 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0003073

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Simons theoryWilson loopsBF theorytopological quantum field theoriessuperconnectionsBatalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formalismChen's iterated integralscohomology of knotsghosts and antighostsghosts for ghosts

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