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Graph cohomology classes in the Batalin–Vilkovisky formalism

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posted on 2009-07-07, 13:45 authored by Alastair Hamilton, Andrey Lazarev
This paper gives a conceptual formulation of Kontsevich’s ‘dual construction’ producing graph cohomology classes from a differential graded Frobenius algebra with an odd scalar product. Our construction–whilst equivalent to the original one–is combinatorics-free and is based on the Batalin–Vilkovisky formalism, from which its gauge independence is immediate.

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Journal of Geometry and Physics, 2009, 59 (5), pp. 555-575.

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Journal of Geometry and Physics

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Elsevier

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0393-0440

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2009

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2009-07-07

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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0393044009000151

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