Comments on the gauge fixed BRST cohomology and the quantum Noether method

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2004.03.035zbMATHOpenAlexMaRDI QIDQ447161FDO

Authors Glenn Barnich, Tobias Hurth, Kostas Skenderis

Publication date 9 September 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0306127

zbMATH Keywords

BRST cohomologyquantum Noether method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: We discuss in detail the relation between the gauge fixed and gauge invariant BRST cohomology. We showed previously that in certain gauges some cohomology classes of the gauge-fixed BRST differential do not correspond to gauge invariant observables. We now show that in addition ``accidental conserved currents may appear. These correspond one-to-one to observables that become trivial in this gauge. We explicitly show how the gauge-fixed BRST cohomology appears in the context of the Quantum Noether Method.

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