nLab Alberto Cattaneo

Alberto Sergio Cattaneo

Selected writings

  • publication list: pdf

On 3-manifolds:

On the Poisson sigma-model:

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 string topology and BV-formalism for topological field theories:

On deformation quantization:

  • Alberto Cattaneo, From topological field theory to deformation quantization and reduction, ICM (2006) [pdf]

On Poisson algebras internal to graded vector spaces (such as Gerstenhaber algebras):

On BV-BRST formalism compatible with decomposing spacetime into pieces (BV-BFV formalism):

On supergeometry in view of dg-manifolds and AKSZ sigma-models:

On the local formulation (allowing decomposition and re-gluing of spacetime) of the phase space of Einstein gravity in first-order formulation via BV-BFV formalism:

and for flux observables:

and relation to BF-theory:

On the relativistic particle, and related systems, in BV-BRST formalism:

On boundary field theory and the standard model of particle physics coupled to gravity:

On formulating D=3 supergravity in BV-formalism and relation to AKSZ theory:

On D=4 supergravity in BV-formalism:

On BF-theory via BV-formalism:

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