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

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.01.005MaRDI QIDQ315876zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Klaus Bering, Igor A. Batalin

Publication date 26 September 2016

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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

zbMATH Keywords

antisymplectic geometryBV field-antifield formalismodd Laplacianquantum deformationquantum field theory

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) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) 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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