Basics of the BV formalism

Speaker:

Michele Schiavina

Affiliation:

University of California Berkeley/MPIM

Date:

Thu, 17/05/2018 - 10:15 - 12:00

Location:

MPIM Seminar Room [2]

Parent event:

Learning seminar on quantum field theory and BV formalism [3]

The Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formalism can be seen as a
generalisation of the BRST cohomological methods to handle field
theories with symmetries. In this talk I will give an introduction to
the basics of this formalism, trying to recover what we already know and
hinting at why this is a useful generalisation.