Superfield approach to nilpotent symmetries for QED from a single restriction: an alternative to the horizontality condition

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/33/023zbMath1114.81331arXivhep-th/0510164MaRDI QIDQ5485543

Publication date: 30 August 2006

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/0510164

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T70: Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods

81V10: Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics

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