EVENT DETAILS AND ABSTRACT

Title: An Introduction to the BV-BFV Formalism
Speaker: Alberto Cattaneo
Speaker Info: University of Zurich
Brief Description: Pretalk
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Abstract:

The BV-BFV formalism unifies the BV formalism (which deals with the problem of fixing the gauge of field theories on closed manifolds) with the BFV formalism (which yields a cohomological resolution of the reduced phase space of a classical field theory). I will explain how this formalism arises and how it can be quantized.