5 papers
A Curious Relation Between Gravity and Yang-Mills Theories
Laurent Baulieu
We find that Euclidian or Minkowski gravity in d dimensions can be formally expressed as the restriction to a slice of a supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in d+1 dimensions with SO(…
From Topological Field Theories to Covariant Matrix Strings
Laurent Baulieu, Celine Laroche, Nikita Nekrasov
This paper is a shortened version of the previous work hep-th/9907099: We propose a topological quantum field theory as a twisted candidate to formulate covariant matrix strings. T…
B-V Quantization in 2-D Gravity and New Conformal Fields
Laurent Baulieu
We investigate the properties of 2-D gravity in the Batalin and Vilkovisky quantization scheme. We find a factorized structure which exhibits duality properties analogous to those…
Field Anti-Field Duality, p-Form Gauge Fields and Topological Field Theories
Laurent Baulieu
We construct a framework which unifyies in dual pairs the fields and anti-fields of the Batalin and Vilkovisky quantization method. We consider gauge theories of p-forms coupled to…
From topological quantum mechanics to the physics of spin-one particles
Romain Attal, Laurent Baulieu
We give an example of topological theory whose Hilbert space contains physical objects: the N=2 supersymmetric Lagrangian of spin-one particles moving in D-dimensional space-time e…