General quantum-mechanical setting for field-antifield formalism as a hyper-gauge theory

DOI10.1142/S0217732316501674MaRDI QIDQ2827977zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Igor A. Batalin, Peter M. Lavrov

Publication date 24 October 2016

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.00754

zbMATH Keywords

Weyl symbolfield-antifield formalismquantum antibracket

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: A general quantum-mechanical setting is proposed for the field-antifield formalism as a unique hyper-gauge theory in the field-antifield space. We formulate a Schr"odinger-type equation to describe the quantum evolution in a "current time" purely formal in its nature. The corresponding Hamiltonian is defined in the form of a supercommutator of the delta-operator with a hyper-gauge Fermion. The initial wave function is restricted to be annihilated with the delta-operator. The Schr"odinger's equation is resolved in a closed form of the path integral, whose action contains the symmetric Weyl's symbol of the Hamiltonian. We take the path integral explicitly in the case of being a hyper-gauge Fermion an arbitrary function rather than an operator.

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