First order parent formulation for generic gauge field theories

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2011)122zbMath1214.81278arXiv1009.0190MaRDI QIDQ544405

Glenn Barnich, Maxim Grigoriev

Publication date: 14 June 2011

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0190

zbMATH Keywords

topological field theoriesBRST quantizationstring field theoryBRST symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) de Rham theory in global analysis (58A12)

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