Higher-dimensional BF theories in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism: The BV action and generalized Wilson loops

Abstract

This paper analyzes in details the Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization procedure for BF theories on n-dimensional manifolds and describes a suitable superformalism to deal with the master equation and the search of observables. In particular, generalized Wilson loops for BF theories with additional polynomial B-interactions are discussed in any dimensions. The paper also contains the explicit proofs to the Theorems stated in math.QA/0003073.

58 pages. Typos corrected; references updated. To appear in Commun. Math. Phys

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