Symmetries and the antibracket

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00508-PMaRDI QIDQ1901233zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors P. H. Damgaard, Jorge Alfaro

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/9505156

zbMATH Keywords

Ward identitiesgeneral BRST languageGrassmann odd bracketLagrangian path integralspecial limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: Requiring that a Lagrangian path integral leads to certain identities (Ward identities in a broad sense) can be formulated in a general BRST language, if necessary by the use of collective fields. The condition of BRST symmetry can then be expressed with the help of the antibracket, and suitable generalizations thereof. In particular, a new Grassmann-odd bracket, which reduces to the conventional antibracket in a special limit, naturally appears. We illustrate the formalism with various examples.

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