On the quantization of reducible gauge systems

DOI10.1063/1.530094MaRDI QIDQ3136645zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Rafael Ferraro, Marcel Puchin, Marc Henneaux

Publication date 21 October 1993

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

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)

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.

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