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6th International Workshop on Combinatorics of Moduli Spaces, Cluster Algebras, and Topological Recursion
June 4, 2018 12:30–13:40, Moscow, Higher School of Economics
 


The Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism for field theory and general covariance

Ezra Getzler
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Ezra Getzler



Abstract: AKSZ field theories are a class of field theories generalizing the Chern-Simons model. They exhibit general covariance under diffeomorphisms of spacetime. In this talk, I will recast general covariance as a Maurer-Cartan equation for a certain curved differential graded Lie algebra. In joint work with Sean Pohorence, I have shown that the superparticle, a toy model of the (Green-Schwarz) superstring, while not an AKSZ model, does exhibit general covariance in the sense that the curved Maurer-Cartan equation mentioned above may be solved. The proof requires the use of the Thom-Whitney normalization of curved differential graded Lie algebras, introduced by Sullivan in his work on rational homotopy theory

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