Some remarks on BRS transformations, anomalies and the cohomology of the Lie algebra of the group of gauge transformations

DOI10.1007/BF01208267zbMATH Open0521.53064WikidataQ64038626 ScholiaQ64038626MaRDI QIDQ1055024FDOQ1055024

L. Bonora, Paolo Cotta-Ramusino

Publication date: 1983

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

zbMATH Keywords

local cohomologyMaurer-Cartan formYang-Mills fieldsghostsFaddeev-Popov ghostsprincipal fiber bundleAdler-Bell-Jackiw anomalyanti-BRS transformationsantighostsBRS transformationsvertical part of a connection form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Group structures and generalizations on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B25) Geometric quantization (53D50) Cohomology of Lie (super)algebras (17B56)

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