Divergence operators and odd Poisson brackets

Annales de l'Institut Fourier

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2002, Pages

  Kosmann Schwarzbach, Y ^a   Monterde, J ^b  

^a CENTRE DE MATHÉMATIQUES LAURENT SCHWARTZ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Batalin Vilkovisky algebra Schouten bracket; Berezinian volume; Gerstenhaber algebra; Graded connection; Graded Lie algebra; Maurer Cartan equation; Quantum master equation; Supermanifold

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037828378     PISSN: 03730956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5802/aif.1892     Document Type: Article

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