On the quantization of reducible gauge systems

DOI10.1063/1.530094zbMATH Open0777.58018arXivhep-th/9210070OpenAlexW3103183638WikidataQ59307885 ScholiaQ59307885MaRDI QIDQ3136645FDOQ3136645

Marc Henneaux, Rafael Ferraro, Marcel Puchin

Publication date: 21 October 1993

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Reducible gauge theories with constraints linear in the momenta are quantized. The equivalence of the reduced phase space quantization, Dirac quantization and BRST quantization is established. The ghosts of ghosts are found to play a crucial role in the equivalence proof.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9210070

zbMATH Keywords

BRST quantizationDirac quantizationphase space quantizationreducible gauge systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Geometric quantization (53D50)

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