The observer's ghost: notes on a field space connection

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2017)017zbMATH Open1380.83020MaRDI QIDQ682889FDOQ682889

Authors Henrique Gomes, Aldo Riello 

Publication date 5 February 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08226

zbMATH Keywords

BRST quantizationdifferential and algebraic geometrygauge symmetryspace-time symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General questions in astronomy and astrophysics (85A04) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We introduce a functional covariant differential as a tool for studying field space geometry in a manifestly covariant way. We then touch upon its role in gauge theories and general relativity over bounded regions, and in BRST symmetry. Due to the Gribov problem, we argue that our formalism ---allowing for a non-vanishing functional curvature---is necessary for a global treatment of gauge-invariance in field space. We conclude by suggesting that the structures we introduce satisfactorily implement the notion of a (non-asymptotic) observer in gauge theories and general relativity.

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