Homotopy colimits and global observables in Abelian gauge theory

We study chain complexes of field configurations and observables for Abelian gauge theory on contractible manifolds, and show that they can be extended to non-contractible manifolds by using techniques from homotopy theory. The extension prescription yields functors from a category of manifolds to s...

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Main Authors: Benini, Marco, Schenkel, Alexander, Szabo, Richard J.
Format: Article
Published: Springer Verlag 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41004/