Augmented superfield approach to nilpotent symmetries of the modified version of 2D proca theory (Q2363050)

Summary: We derive the complete set of off-shell nilpotent and absolutely anticommuting Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST), anti-BRST, and (anti-)co-BRST symmetry transformations for \textit{all} the fields of the modified version of two \((1 + 1)\)-dimensional (2D) Proca theory by exploiting the ``augmented'' superfield formalism where the (dual-)horizontality conditions and (dual-)gauge invariant restrictions are exploited \textit{together}. We capture the (anti-)BRST and (anti-)co-BRST invariance of the Lagrangian density in the language of superfield approach. We also express the nilpotency and absolute anticommutativity of the (anti-)BRST and (anti-)co-BRST charges within the framework of augmented superfield formalism. This exercise leads to some \textit{novel} observations which have, hitherto, not been pointed out in the literature within the framework of superfield approach to BRST formalism. For the sake of completeness, we also mention, very briefly, a unique bosonic symmetry, the ghost-scale symmetry, and discrete symmetries of the theory and show that the algebra of conserved charges provides a physical realization of the Hodge algebra (satisfied by the de Rham cohomological operators of differential geometry).