Algebraic formulation of higher gauge theory

DOI10.1063/1.4985073zbMath1371.81204arXiv1702.01545OpenAlexW3105081161MaRDI QIDQ5282854

Roberto Zucchini

Publication date: 17 July 2017

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01545

zbMATH Keywords

higher gauge theoryalgebraic field theoryBRST transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Graded rings and modules (associative rings and algebras) (16W50) Analysis on supermanifolds or graded manifolds (58C50) Groupoids (i.e. small categories in which all morphisms are isomorphisms) (20L05)

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