A nilpotent symmetry of quantum gauge theories

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/18/18/307zbMATH Open0994.81076arXivhep-th/0001152OpenAlexW2086260306MaRDI QIDQ2768095FDOQ2768095

Authors: Amitabha Lahiri 

Publication date: 22 April 2002

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

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.

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

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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)

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