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Perturbative Chern-Simons invariants on lens spaces via BV-BFV quantization

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Speaker: 
Konstantin Wernli
Affiliation: 
University of Zurich
Date: 
Wed, 04/04/2018 - 14:00 - 15:30
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

After giving a brief introduction to the quantum BV-BFV formalism developed by Cattaneo, Mnëv and Reshetikhin, I will explain a way of applying it to Chern-Simons theory for split Lie algebras, i.e. quadratic Lie algebras that admit a splitting into isotropic subspaces. I will present applications to perturbative Chern-Simons Invariants, in particular, a computation of the lowest-order Chern-Simons invariant for lens spaces, and explain how the result of this computation agrees with the literature.

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