Local BRST cohomology in Einstein-Yang-Mills theory

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00471-4zbMath0925.53044arXivhep-th/9505173OpenAlexW2045151735WikidataQ59307834 ScholiaQ59307834MaRDI QIDQ1901232

Friedemann Brandt, Glenn Barnich, Marc Henneaux

Publication date: 7 November 1995

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9505173

zbMATH Keywords

topologyghost numbersabelian factorsconserved Noether currentsconsistent Lagrangian deformationsEinstein Yang Mills theorylocal Lorentz invariant Noether currentsnontrivial gravitational variable manifoldsemisimple Yang Mills gauge groupstandard Hilbert Lagrangian sumstandard Yang Mills Lagrangian sum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) General relativity (83C99) Cohomology of Lie (super)algebras (17B56)

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