Symplectic gaugings and the field-antifield formalism

DOI10.1002/PROP.201100006MaRDI QIDQ3020178zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jan De Rydt, F. Coomans, Antoine van Proeyen

Publication date 3 August 2011

Published in Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.4539, https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/298445

zbMATH Keywords

gauged supergravitiesclassification of supergravities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Supergravity (83E50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: We give an example of how conventional gauging methods obstruct a systematic analysis of gauged supergravities. We discuss how the embedding tensor formalism deals with these problems and argue that the gauge algebra related to the embedding tensor formalism is soft, open and reducible. We connect the embedding tensor formalism to the field-antifield (or Batalin-Vilkovisky) formalism, which is the most general formulation known for gauge theories.

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