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BV Formalism and Partition Functions
by Pietro Antonio Grassi, Ondrej Hulik
Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Pietro Grassi |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202504_00041v1 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | May 15, 2025 |
| Date submitted: | April 26, 2025, 7:31 p.m. |
| Submitted by: | Grassi, Pietro |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
The BV formalism is a well-established method for analyzing symmetries and quantizing field theories. In this paper, we use BV formalism to derive partition functions and the space of gauge invariant operators implementing the equations of motions and their redundancies for selected theories. We discuss various interpretations of the results, some dualities, and relation to the first quantized models.
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Author comments upon resubmission
grammatical rephrasing when needed.
List of changes
We want to thank the referee for valuable comments and suggestions.
We have made a complete rechecking and proofreading of the paper.
We apologize for the low English level and hope we have adopted a better and more proper writing style.
We comply with all the referee's suggestions.
We improved the abstract as suggested by the referee, and we provided a rewording of the abstract.
We change from "weights" to "powers" where needed.
We amended the mistakes pointed out in points 4 and 5
We added a small section as a warm-up exercise for the scalar fields.
We want to thank the referee for the final considerations of the report regarding the missing duality of the BV complexes. We agree with the comment, and it would be very nice to understand the origin of the missing duality from a purely BV point of view in the case of self-dual fields.
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