Lie algebroids and the geometry of off-shell BRST

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2021.115553zbMATH Open1506.81058arXiv2101.03974OpenAlexW3201761404MaRDI QIDQ2238005FDOQ2238005

Luca Ciambelli, Robert G. Leigh

Publication date: 28 October 2021

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

Abstract: It is well-known that principal bundles and associated bundles underlie the geometric structure of classical gauge field theories. In this paper, we explore the reformulation of gauge theories in terms of Lie algebroids and their associated bundles. This turns out to be a simple but elegant change, mathematically involving a quotient that removes spurious structure. The payoff is that the entire geometric structure involves only vector bundles over space-time, and we emphasize that familiar concepts such as BRST are built into the geometry, rather than appearing as adjunct structure. Thus the formulation of gauge theories in terms of Lie algebroids provides a fully off-shell account of the BRST complex. We expect that this formulation will have appealing impacts on the geometric understanding of quantization and anomalies, as well as entanglement in gauge theories. The formalism covers all gauge theories, and we discuss Yang-Mills theories with matter as well as gravitational theories explicitly.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03974

zbMATH Keywords

Lie algebroidsassociated bundlesreformulation of gauge theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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