On 3-manifolds:
On higher order Vassiliev invariants as Chern-Simons theory-correlators, hence as configuration space-integrals of wedge products of Chern-Simons propagators assigned to edges of Feynman diagrams in the graph complex:
Alberto Cattaneo, Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Riccardo Longoni, Configuration spaces and Vassiliev classes in any dimension, Algebr. Geom. Topol. 2 (2002) 949-1000 (arXiv:math/9910139)
Alberto Cattaneo, Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Riccardo Longoni, Algebraic structures on graph cohomology, Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications, Vol. 14, No. 5 (2005) 627-640 (arXiv:math/0307218)
On the Poisson sigma-model:
Alberto Cattaneo, Giovanni Felder, A path integral approach to the Kontsevich quantization formula, Commun. Math. Phys. 212, 591–611 (2000) doi, math.QA/9902090.
Alberto Cattaneo, Giovanni Felder, Poisson sigma models and deformation quantization, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 16, 179–190 (2001) hep-th/0102208
Alberto Cattaneo, Giovanni Felder, Poisson sigma models and symplectic groupoids , (ed. Klaas Landsman, M. Pflaum, M. Schlichenmeier), Progress in Mathematics 198, 61–93 (Birkhäuser, 2001)
Alberto Cattaneo, Giovanni Felder, On the AKSZ formulation of the Poisson sigma model, Lett. Math. Phys. 56, 163–179 (2001) math.QA/0102108.
On BV-BRST formalism compatible with decomposing spacetime into pieces (BV-BFV formalism?):
On the local formulation (allowing decomposition and re-gluing of spacetime) of the phase space of Einstein gravity:
Alberto Cattaneo, Michele Schiavina, BV-BFV approach to General Relativity, Einstein-Hilbert action, J. Math. Phys. 57, 023515 (2016) (arXiv:1509.05762)
Alberto Cattaneo, Michele Schiavina, The reduced phase space of Palatini-Cartan-Holst theory, Ann. Henri Poincaré (2019) 20: 445 (arXiv:1707.05351, doi:10.1007/s00023-018-0733-z)
Alberto Cattaneo, Michele Schiavina, BV-BFV approach to General Relativity: Palatini-Cartan-Holst action (arXiv:1707.06328)
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