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

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/33/023zbMATH Open1114.81331arXivhep-th/0510164OpenAlexW2057158389MaRDI QIDQ5485543FDOQ5485543

Authors: R. P. Malik 

Publication date: 30 August 2006

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We derive together the exact local, covariant, continuous and off-shell nilpotent Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) and anti-BRST symmetry transformations for the U(1) gauge field (A_mu), the (anti-)ghost fields ((�ar C)C) and the Dirac fields (psi, �arpsi) of the Lagrangian density of a four (3 + 1)-dimensional QED by exploiting a single restriction on the six (4, 2)-dimensional supermanifold. A set of four even spacetime coordinates x^mu (mu = 0, 1, 2, 3) and two odd Grassmannian variables heta and �ar heta parametrize this six dimensional supermanifold. The new gauge invariant restriction on the above supermanifold owes its origin to the (super) covariant derivatives and their intimate relations with the (super) 2-form curvatures ( ilde F^{(2)})F^{(2)} constructed with the help of (super) 1-form gauge connections ( ilde A^{(1)})A^{(1)} and (super) exterior derivatives ( ilde d)d. The results obtained separately by exploiting (i) the horizontality condition, and (ii) one of its consistent extensions, are shown to be a simple consequence of this new single restriction on the above supermanifold. Thus, our present endeavour provides an alternative to (and, in some sense, generalization of) the horizontality condition of the usual superfield formalism applied to the derivation of BRST symmetries.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0510164

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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