The Maurer–Cartan structure of BRST differentials

DOI10.1063/1.1904708zbMATH Open1110.81154arXivmath-ph/0410026OpenAlexW2026078941MaRDI QIDQ3438484FDOQ3438484

Authors: Jining Gao 

Publication date: 16 May 2007

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

Abstract: In this paper, we construct a new sequence of generators of the BRST complex and reformulate the BRST differential so that it acts on elements of the complex much like the Maurer-Cartan differential acts on left-invariant forms. Thus our BRST differential is formally analogous to the differential defined on the BRST formulation of the Chevalley-Eilenberg cochain complex of a Lie algebra. Moreover, for an important class of physical theories, we show that in fact the differential is a Chevalley-Eilenberg differential. As one of the applications of our formalism, we show that the BRST differential provides a mechanism which permits us to extend a nonintegrable system of vector fields on a manifold to an integrable system on an extended manifold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0410026

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Differential forms in global analysis (58A10) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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• A differential geometric setting for BRS transformations and anomalies. I
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