Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9860969 | Physics Letters B | 2005 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
We present a worldline description of topological non-Abelian BF theory in arbitrary space-time dimensions. It is shown that starting with a trivial classical action defined on the worldline, the BRST cohomology has a natural representation as the sum of the de Rham cohomology. Based on this observation, we construct a second-quantized action of the BF theory. Interestingly enough, this theory naturally gives us a minimal solution to the Batalin-Vilkovisky master equation of the BF theory. Our formalism sheds some light not only on an interplay between the Witten-type and the Schwarz-type topological quantum field theories but also on the role of the Batalin-Vilkovisky anti-fields and ghosts as geometrical and elementary objects.
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Authors
Ichiro Oda, Mario Tonin,