INTEGRATION MEASURE AND EXTENDED BRST-COVARIANT QUANTIZATION (Q4547622)

The ingredients of modified triplectic quantization are \((\cdot,\cdot)^a\), \(\Delta^a,V^a\) and \(U^a\) with \(a=1,2\). \({\mathcal M}_0\) is a Lagrangian subspace on which a \(Sp(2)\) invariant even Poisson bracket can be defined. Superspace \({\mathcal M}\) parametrized by \(z^\mu=(x^i, \theta_{ia})\) has an even symplectic structure \(\Omega=dz^\mu \Omega_{\mu\nu} dz^\nu= \omega_{ij} dx^i\wedge dx^j+\kappa^{-1} \omega^{ij} D\theta_{ia}\wedge D \theta_j^a\) corresponding to nondegenerate Poisson bracket \(\{f(z),g(z)\}\). By using the structure, the measure \(D_0=\kappa (\det|\omega_{ij} |)^{3/2}\) on \({\mathcal M}\) is defined. The authors define the extended BRST-invariant path integral (vacuum functional) \[ Z=\int dz d\lambda [D_0\exp\{(i/ \hbar)(W(z)+ X(z, \lambda)+ \alpha S_0)\}]. \] The master equations for the quantum action \(W\) and gauge-fixing functional \(X\) are formulated as follows: \((W,W)^a/2+ {\mathcal V}^aW=i \hbar\Delta^aW\), \((X,X)^a/2+ {\mathcal U}^aX=i\hbar \Delta^a\)X. They consider the general transformation of \(z\) generated by \(\delta z=(z,F)^a\mu_a +\beta\mu_a V^az+\gamma \mu_aU^az\). When \({\mathcal V}^a= (\alpha U^a+\beta V^a+ \gamma U^a)/2\) and \({\mathcal U}^a= (\alpha U^a-\beta V^a-\gamma U^a)/2\), the integrand in \(Z\) becomes invariant under the general transformation. If \(\alpha= 1\), \(\beta=2\), \(\gamma=0\), then \(Z\) coinzides with the one in the modified triplectic quantization.