Gauging cosets

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2004.07.033zbMATH Open1198.81178arXivhep-th/0403209OpenAlexW3037996832MaRDI QIDQ874481FDOQ874481

Pietro Antonio Grassi, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

Publication date: 10 April 2007

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show how to gauge the set of raising and lowering generators of an arbitrary Lie algebra. We consider SU(N) as an example. The nilpotency of the BRST charge requires constraints on the ghosts associated to the raising and lowering generators. To remove these constraints we add further ghosts and we need a second BRST charge to obtain nontrivial cohomology. The second BRST operator yields a group theoretical explanation of the grading encountered in the covariant quantization of superstrings.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0403209

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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