Cohomological aspects of Abelian gauge theory

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/33/12/310MaRDI QIDQ4496310zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. P. Malik

Publication date 13 August 2000

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/9902146

zbMATH Keywords

BRST and co-BRST chargesBRST formalismHodge decompositionWitten- and Schwarz-type topological field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: We discuss some aspects of cohomological properties of a two-dimensional free Abelian gauge theory in the framework of BRST formalism. We derive the conserved and nilpotent BRST- and co-BRST charges and express the Hodge decomposition theorem in terms of these charges and a conserved bosonic charge corresponding to the Laplacian operator. It is because of the topological nature of free U(1) gauge theory that the Laplacian operator goes to zero when equations of motion are exploited. We derive two sets of topological invariants which are related to each-other by a certain kind of duality transformation and express the Lagrangian density of this theory as the sum of terms that are BRST- and co-BRST invariants. Mathematically, this theory captures together some of the key features of Witten- and Schwarz type of topological field theories.

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