Superfield approach to (non-)local symmetries for 1-form Abelian gauge theory

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/37/3/034MaRDI QIDQ4467239zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. P. Malik

Publication date 9 June 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0306182

zbMATH Keywords

Abelian gauge theoryBRST symmetrychiral superfieldGrassmannian differentialsLagrangian density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supermanifolds and graded manifolds (58A50) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: We exploit the geometrical superfield formalism to derive the local, covariant and continuous Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) symmetry transformations and the non-local, non-covariant and continuous dual-BRST symmetry transformations for the free Abelian one-form gauge theory in four $(3+1)$-dimensions (4D) of spacetime. Our discussion is carried out in the framework of BRST invariant Lagrangian density for the above 4D theory in the Feynman gauge. The geometrical origin and interpretation for the (dual-)BRST charges (and the transformations they generate) are provided in the language of translations of some superfields along the Grassmannian directions of the six ($4+2)$-dimensional supermanifold parametrized by the four spacetime and two Grassmannian variables.

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