Feynman diagrams for pedestrians and mathematicians

Details Feynman diagrams for pedestrians and mathematicians Feynman diagrams for pedestrians and mathematicians

2004-06-12

arxiv.org/abs/math/0406251v1

Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 73:15-42,2005

Mathematics

Geometric Topology

Lecture notes for DennisFest. 28 pages, 6 figures

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This is a simple mathematical introduction into Feynman diagram technique, which is a standard physical tool to write perturbative expansions of path integrals near a critical point of the action. I start from a rigorous treatment of a finite dimensional case (which actually belongs more to multivariable calculus than to physics), and then use a simple "dictionary" to translate these results to an infinite dimensional case. The standard methods such as gauge-fixing and Faddeev-Popov ghosts are also included. Resulting Feynman diagram series often may be used rigorously without any references to the initial physical theory (which one may "sweep under the carpet"). This idea is illustrated on an example of the Chern-Simons theory, which leads to universal finite type invariants of knots and 3-manifolds.

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