[phys4phys] Group for Gravitation, Particle and Fields seminar, Friday 24 March 2023

[Marija Dimitrijevic Ciric]

Dear colleagues,

You are cordially invited to the seminar of the Group for Gravitation, 
Particles and Fields, which will be held on Friday, 24 March 2023 at 
11:00 at the Faculty of Physics, lecture hall 665.


The talk entitled

Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism and quantization of gauge field theories

is the first in the series of seminars on Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism 
and its applications and will be given by Voja Radovanovic (Faculty of 
Physics, Belgrade).

Abstract: In these series of lectures we will review the 
Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formalism and its applications. This formalism 
is a generalization of the BRST quantization and it is frequently used 
in field theory and quantum mechanics. One of the advantages of the BV 
formalism is that it provides a well defined quantization for theories 
that cannot be quanized by the Faddev-Popov path integral approach. In 
particular, gauge field theories with complicated gauge symmetries 
(reducible and/or with an open algebra) are quantized using the BV 
formalism.

In the first lecture we will describe the standard field theory approach 
to the BV quantization. To start with, we will introduce notions of 
antifields, antibracket and BV laplacian and derive their properties. 
Then we will discuss the classic and the quantum master equations and 
their solutions.  Finally, we will present few relevant examples: 
Yang-Mills theory, toplogical Yang-Mills theory and the antisymmetric 
tensor field theory.

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Time: March 24, 2023 11:00 Belgrade

Faculty of Physics, lecture hall 665, 3rd floor

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Best regards,

Marija Dimitrijevic Ciric

University of Belgrade
Faculty of Physics
Studentski trg 12-16
11000 Belgrade
Serbia