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Introduction to the BV-BFV formalism

arXiv:1905.08047 · doi:10.1142/S0129055X2030006X

Abstract

These notes give an introduction to the mathematical framework of the Batalin-Vilkovisky and Batalin-Fradkin-Vilkovisky formalisms. Some of the presented content was given as a mini course by the first author at the 2018 QSPACE conference in Benasque.

63 pages, 10 figures, minor changes made (added some references, corrected some typos and some small mistakes)

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