BRST formulation of 4-monopoles

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/11/005zbMATH Open0871.53054arXivhep-th/9601027OpenAlexW2115175519MaRDI QIDQ5689705FDOQ5689705

Authors: R. Gianvittorio, Isbelia Martin, Alvaro Restuccia 

Publication date: 5 August 1997

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A supersymmetric gauge invariant action is constructed over any 4-dimensional Riemannian manifold describing Witten's theory of 4-monopoles. The topological supersymmetric algebra closes off-shell. The multiplets include the auxiliary fields and the Wess-Zumino fields in an unusual way, arising naturally from BRST gauge fixing. A new canonical approach over Riemann manifolds is followed, using a Morse function as an euclidean time and taking into account the BRST boundary conditions that come from the BFV formulation. This allows a construction of the effective action starting from gauge principles.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9601027

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zbMATH Keywords

BRST symmetrysupersymmetrymonopolestopological field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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• Langevin approach for Abelian topological gauge theory
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