A nilpotent symmetry of quantum gauge theories

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/18/18/307MaRDI QIDQ2768095zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Amitabha Lahiri

Publication date 22 April 2002

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0001152

zbMATH Keywords

Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin invariantoff-shell nilpotent symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: For the Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) invariant extended action for any gauge theory, there exists another off-shell nilpotent symmetry. For linear gauges, it can be elevated to a symmetry of the quantum theory and used in the construction of the quantum effective action. Generalizations for nonlinear gauges and actions with higher order ghost terms are also possible.

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