Notes on Chern–Simons perturbation theory

DOI10.1142/S0129055X22300035zbMath1490.81112OpenAlexW4207063339MaRDI QIDQ5069299

Konstantin Wernli

Publication date: 8 April 2022

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0129055x22300035

zbMATH Keywords

quantum field theoryChern-Simons theorygauge theoryFeynman diagramsgauge invarianceeffective actionsBatalin-Vilkovisky formalismanomaliesperturbative quantizationhomotopical methods in QFT

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27) Invariants of 3-manifolds (including skein modules, character varieties) (57K31) Effective quantum field theories (81T12)

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