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

DOI10.1007/BF01208267zbMath0521.53064WikidataQ64038626 ScholiaQ64038626MaRDI QIDQ1055024

Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Losiano Bonora

Publication date: 1983

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

Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly; local cohomology; ghosts; Yang-Mills fields; Maurer-Cartan form; Faddeev-Popov ghosts; principal fiber bundle; anti-BRS transformations; antighosts; BRS transformations; vertical part of a connection form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T60: Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics

53C80: Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences

58B25: Group structures and generalizations on infinite-dimensional manifolds

17B56: Cohomology of Lie (super)algebras

53D50: Geometric quantization

53C05: Connections (general theory)

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