Symplectic gaugings and the field-antifield formalism

DOI10.1002/PROP.201100006zbMATH Open1222.83185arXiv1102.4539OpenAlexW3099195526MaRDI QIDQ3020178FDOQ3020178

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

Publication date: 3 August 2011

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

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.4539

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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)

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