Lectures on AKSZ Sigma Models for Physicists

zbMath1377.81186arXiv1204.3714MaRDI QIDQ5365526

Noriaki Ikeda

Publication date: 6 October 2017

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3714

zbMATH Keywords

topological field theorydeformation quantizationsupergeometryAKSZ sigma modelBRST-BV formalismLie and higher algebroid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Deformation quantization, star products (53D55)

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