Gribov problem, contact terms and Čech-De Rham cohomology in 2D topological gravity

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00004-6zbMath1004.81555arXivhep-th/9510003OpenAlexW1618227549MaRDI QIDQ1907372

Camillo Imbimbo, Carlo M. Becchi

Publication date: 20 February 1996

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9510003

zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacestring theoryGribov horizonCech De Rham cocyclesfunctional measurelocal Ward identity descent

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

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