Local BRST cohomology in the antifield formalism. I: General theorems

DOI10.1007/BF02099464zbMath0844.53059arXivhep-th/9405109OpenAlexW3103680067WikidataQ59307851 ScholiaQ59307851MaRDI QIDQ1903333

Glenn Barnich, Friedemann Brandt, Marc Henneaux

Publication date: 27 August 1996

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9405109

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein gravity BRST cohomology Yang-Mills fields Koszul-Tate differential antifield formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05)

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