Gauge independence in a higher-order Lagrangian formalism via change of variables in the path integral

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.01.005MaRDI QIDQ315876zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Klaus Bering, Igor A. Batalin

Publication date 26 September 2016

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5121

zbMATH Keywords

quantum deformationquantum field theoryantisymplectic geometryBV field-antifield formalismodd Laplacian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: In this paper we work out the explicit form of the change of variables that reproduces an arbitrary change of gauge in a higher-order Lagrangian formalism.

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