On the geometry of ghosts

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(16)30056-8zbMATH Open1367.81106arXiv1504.02284OpenAlexW1911034906MaRDI QIDQ2361271FDOQ2361271

Authors: Daniel Canarutto 

Publication date: 30 June 2017

Published in: Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An inspection of the precise geometric constructions underlying fundamental notions in quantum gauge field theories sheds light on various aspects which tend to be obscured in the usual formalisms. Revising the notions of mutually conjugated "internal" bundles we propose a general rule for the constructions of free quantum fields and their conjugates, naturally yielding the needed fundamental properties with regard to contractions, super-commutators, field momentum and Hamiltonian, and other quantities. This scheme applies to fields of all types; in particular we examine consequences in relation to ghosts and anti-ghosts. Finally in the context of observer-independent Fr"olicher-smooth quantum bundles we show how the antifield sectors naturally arise, and examine the precise relation among these and the BRST symmetry of a gauge field theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02284

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zbMATH Keywords

ghostsantifieldsquantum field geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10)

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