Reducible gauge algebra of BRST-invariant constraints

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2007.02.013MaRDI QIDQ2369758zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Igor A. Batalin, Klaus Bering

Publication date 21 June 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0612221, http://cds.cern.ch/record/1006940

zbMATH Keywords

antibracketBFV-BRST quantizationextended BRST symmetryreducible gauge algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We show that it is possible to formulate the most general first-class gauge algebra of the operator formalism by only using BRST-invariant constraints. In particular, we extend a previous construction for irreducible gauge algebras to the reducible case. The gauge algebra induces two nilpotent, Grassmann-odd, mutually anticommuting BRST operators that bear structural similarities with BRST/anti-BRST theories but with shifted ghost number assignments. In both cases we show how the extended BRST algebra can be encoded into an operator master equation. A unitarizing Hamiltonian that respects the two BRST symmetries is constructed with the help of a gauge-fixing Boson. Abelian reducible theories are shown explicitly in full detail, while non-Abelian theories are worked out for the lowest reducibility stages and ghost momentum ranks.

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