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Kevin Costello, Owen Gwilliam - Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory: Volume 1, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Del 31 i serien New Mathematical Monographs

Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory: Volume 1

Av Kevin Costello, Owen Gwilliam

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Factorization algebras are local-to-global objects that play a role in classical and quantum field theory which is similar to the role of sheaves in geometry: they conveniently organize complicated information. Their local structure encompasses examples like associative and vertex algebras; in these examples, their global structure encompasses Hochschild homology and conformal blocks. In this first volume, the authors develop the theory of factorization algebras in depth, but with a focus upon examples exhibiting their use in field theory, such as the recovery of a vertex algebra from a chiral conformal field theory and a quantum group from Abelian Chern-Simons theory. Expositions of the relevant background in homological algebra, sheaves and functional analysis are also included, thus making this book ideal for researchers and graduates working at the interface between mathematics and physics.
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Kevin Costello is the Krembil Foundation William Rowan Hamilton Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario. Owen Gwilliam is a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.

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'Because the subject of this book touches many advanced leading theories of quantum physics which utilize heavily mathematical machineries from a diverse range of mathematical topics, the background material needed for this book is immense. So it is very helpful and much appreciated that a 103-page four-section appendix is included in this 387-page book, to provide a very well-organized and fairly detailed review of relevant mathematical background topics, including simplicial techniques, colored operads/multicategories and their algebras, differential graded (dg) Lie algebras and their cohomology, sheaves/cosheaves, formal Hodge theory, and 'convenient, differentiable, or bornological' topological vector spaces facilitating the homological algebra for infinite-dimensional vector spaces.' Albert Sheu, Zentralblatt MATH

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