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Loop observables for BF theories in any dimension and the cohomology of knots by Cattaneo, Alberto S.; Cotta-Ramusino, Paolo; Rossi, Carlo A. is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Loop observables for BF theories in any dimension and the cohomology of knots about?

A generalization of Wilson loop observables for BF theories in any dimension is introduced in the Batalin-Vilkovisky framework. The expectation values of these observables are cohomology classes of the space of imbeddings of a circle. One of the resulting theories discussed in the paper has only trivalent interactions and, irrespective of the actual dimension, looks like a 3-dimensional Chern-Simons theory.

Author

Cattaneo, Alberto S.; Cotta-Ramusino, Paolo; Rossi, Carlo A.

Published

2000

Language

EN