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Equivariant cohomology [1]–[5] is at the core of the geometrical interpretation of the topological -more precisely, cohomological- field theories proposed by E. Witten in 1988 [6, 7]. The corresponding mathematical equipment also sheds some light on the gauge fixing procedure [8] familiar in the Lagrangian formulation of gauge theories.
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Stora, R. (1997). Exercises in Equivariant Cohomology. In: ’t Hooft, G., Jaffe, A., Mack, G., Mitter, P.K., Stora, R. (eds) Quantum Fields and Quantum Space Time. NATO ASI Series, vol 364. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1801-7_11
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