Symplectic reduction, BRS cohomology, and infinite-dimensional Clifford algebras

DOI10.1016/0003-4916(87)90178-3zbMath0642.17003OpenAlexW1971334310WikidataQ29395999 ScholiaQ29395999MaRDI QIDQ1101534

Bertram Kostant, Shlomo Sternberg

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-4916(87)90178-3

zbMATH Keywords

spin representationBRS quantizationcomputing Lie algebra cohomologyinfinite dimensional Clifford algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras (17B65) General mathematical topics and methods in quantum theory (81Q99) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66) Cohomology of Lie (super)algebras (17B56)

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