Odd scalar curvature in field-antifield formalism

DOI10.1063/1.2835485zbMATH Open1153.81317arXiv0708.0400OpenAlexW3103937217MaRDI QIDQ3544686FDOQ3544686

Authors: Igor A. Batalin, Klaus Bering 

Publication date: 8 December 2008

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

Abstract: We consider the possibility of adding a Grassmann-odd function

u to the odd Laplacian. Requiring the total Delta operator to be nilpotent leads to a differential condition for u, which is integrable. It turns out that the odd function u is not an independent geometric object, but is instead completely specified by the antisymplectic structure E and the density ho. The main impact of introducing the u term is that it makes compatibility relations between E and ho obsolete. We give a geometric interpretation of

u as (minus 1/8 times) the odd scalar curvature of an arbitrary antisymplectic, torsion-free and ho-compatible connection. We show that the total Delta operator is a ho-dressed version of Khudaverdian's Delta_E operator, which takes semidensities to semidensities. We also show that the construction generalizes to the situation where ho is replaced by a non-flat line bundle connection F. This generalization is implemented by breaking the nilpotency of Delta with an arbitrary Grassmann-even second-order operator source.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0400

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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