| Speaker: | Ezra Getzler (Northwestern U) |
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| Title: | The Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism of the spinning particle |
| Date (JST): | Tue, Dec 01, 2015, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Place: | Seminar Room B |
| Abstract: | We show that the axiom of Felder and Kazhdan on the vanishing of the cohomology groups in negative degree associated to solutions of the classical master equation in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism is violated by the spinning particle in a flat background coupled to D=1 supergravity. In this model, there are nontrivial cohomology groups in all negative degrees, regardless of the dimension of the spacetime in which the spinning particle is propagating. |
