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

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2017)017zbMath1380.83020arXiv1608.08226MaRDI QIDQ682889

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

gauge symmetryBRST quantizationdifferential and algebraic geometryspace-time symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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