A note on the (anti-)BRST invariant Lagrangian densities for the free Abelian 2-form gauge theory

DOI10.1142/S0217732310033323zbMATH Open1194.81239arXiv0805.1102MaRDI QIDQ3590692FDOQ3590692

Authors: S. Gupta, R. P. Malik 

Publication date: 13 September 2010

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the previously known off-shell nilpotent (s_{(a)b}^2 = 0) and absolutely anticommuting (s_b s_{ab} + s_{ab} s_b = 0) Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) transformations (s_b) and anti-BRST transformations (s_{ab}) are the symmetry transformations of the appropriate Lagrangian densities of a four (3 + 1)-dimensional (4D) free Abelian 2-form gauge theory which do not explicitly incorporate a very specific constrained field condition through a Lagrange multiplier 4D vector field. The above condition, which is the analogue of the Curci-Ferrari restriction of the non-Abelian 1-form gauge theory, emerges from the Euler-Lagrange equations of motion of our present theory and ensures the absolute anticommutativity of the transformations s_{(a)b}. Thus, the coupled Lagrangian densities, proposed in our present investigation, are aesthetically more appealing and more economical.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.1102

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zbMATH Keywords

anticommuting (anti-)BRST symmetriesanalogue of the Curci-Ferrari restrictionfree Abelian 2-form gauge theory in 4DLagrangian densities without any constrained field condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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