BRST and anti-BRST symmetries in perturbative quantum gravity

DOI10.1007/S10701-010-9511-6MaRDI QIDQ630123zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mir Faizal

Publication date 17 March 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.1143

zbMATH Keywords

perturbative quantum gravityBRSTanti-BRST

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Supergravity (83E50)

Abstract: In perturbative quantum gravity, the sum of the classical Lagrangian density, a gauge fixing term and a ghost term is invariant under two sets of supersymmetric transformations called the BRST and the anti-BRST transformations. In this paper we will analyse the BRST and the anti-BRST symmetries of perturbative quantum gravity in curved spacetime, in linear as well as non-linear gauges. We will show that even though the sum of ghost term and the gauge fixing term can always be expressed as a total BRST or a total anti-BRST variation, we can express it as a combination of both of them only in certain special gauges. We will also analyse the violation of nilpotency of the BRST and the anti-BRST transformations by introduction of a bare mass term, in the massive Curci-Ferrari gauge.

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