BRST QUANTIZATION OF A SIXTH-ORDER DERIVATIVE SCALAR FIELD THEORY

DOI10.1142/S0217732313501824zbMath1279.81060arXiv1305.7312MaRDI QIDQ2872978

Yong-Wan Kim, Young-Jai Park, Yun Soo Myung

Publication date: 17 January 2014

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.7312

zbMATH Keywords

quantizationunitarityghostshigher derivative theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

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