On the Batalin, Fradkin, Fradkina, and Tyutin quantization of first order systems

DOI10.1063/1.533031MaRDI QIDQ4498472zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ricardo Amorim, Ronaldo Thibes

Publication date 16 August 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9909115

zbMATH Keywords

anomalous expectation valuesBRST cohomologychiral fermionscompensating fieldsfield-antifield formalismgauge symmetriesghost number oneNoether chiral currentquantum master equationsecond class constraints

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: By using the field-antifield formalism, we show that the method of Batalin, Fradkin, Fradkina and Tyutin to convert Hamiltonian systems submitted to second class constraints introduces compensating fields which do not belong to the BRST cohomology at ghost number one. This assures that the gauge symmetries which arise from the BFFT procedure are not obstructed at quantum level. An example where massive electrodynamics is coupled to chiral fermions is considered. We solve the quantum master equation for the model and show that the respective counterterm has a decisive role in extracting anomalous expectation values associated with the divergence of the Noether chiral current.

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