GAUGE-INVARIANT LAGRANGIANS FOR FREE AND INTERACTING HIGHER SPIN FIELDS: A REVIEW OF THE BRST FORMULATION

DOI10.1142/S0217751X09043134zbMath1165.81360arXiv0805.1346OpenAlexW3121493284MaRDI QIDQ5322390

Angelos Fotopoulos, Mirian Tsulaia

Publication date: 21 July 2009

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.1346

zbMATH Keywords

string field theoryBRST symmetry, gauge symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25)

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