Anomalies in time-ordered products and applications to the BV-BRST formulation of quantum gauge theories

DOI10.1007/S00220-019-03558-6zbMATH Open1431.83066arXiv1803.10235OpenAlexW3102503593WikidataQ127292050 ScholiaQ127292050MaRDI QIDQ2008956FDOQ2008956

Authors: Markus B. Fröb 

Publication date: 26 November 2019

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

Abstract: We show that every (graded) derivation on the algebra of free quantum fields and their Wick powers in curved spacetimes gives rise to a set of anomalous Ward identities for time-ordered products, with an explicit formula for their classical limit. We study these identities for the Koszul-Tate and the full BRST differential in the BV-BRST formulation of perturbatively interacting quantum gauge theories, and clarify the relation to previous results. In particular, we show that the quantum BRST differential, the quantum antibracket and the higher-order anomalies form an $L_{i}nfty$ algebra. The defining relations of this algebra ensure that the gauge structure is well-defined on cohomology classes of the quantum BRST operator, i.e., observables. Furthermore, we show that one can determine contact terms such that also the interacting time-ordered products of multiple interacting fields are well defined on cohomology classes. An important technical improvement over previous treatments is the fact that all our relations hold off-shell and are independent of the concrete form of the Lagrangian, including the case of open gauge algebras.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10235

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zbMATH Keywords

Ward identitiesanomaliescurved spacetimestime-ordered productsquantum gauge theoriesalgebra of free quantum fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

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