Characteristic classes of gauge systems

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2004.10.001zbMATH Open1198.81179arXivhep-th/0407113OpenAlexW2017492038MaRDI QIDQ874510FDOQ874510

S. L. Lyakhovich, A. A. Sharapov

Publication date: 10 April 2007

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

Abstract: We define and study invariants which can be uniformly constructed for any gauge system. By a gauge system we understand an (anti-)Poisson supermanifold provided with an odd Hamiltonian self-commuting vector field called a homological vector field. This definition encompasses all the cases usually included into the notion of a gauge theory in physics as well as some other similar (but different) structures like Lie or Courant algebroids. For Lagrangian gauge theories or Hamiltonian first class constrained systems, the homological vector field is identified with the classical BRST transformation operator. We define characteristic classes of a gauge system as universal cohomology classes of the homological vector field, which are uniformly constructed in terms of this vector field itself. Not striving to exhaustively classify all the characteristic classes in this work, we compute those invariants which are built up in terms of the first derivatives of the homological vector field. We also consider the cohomological operations in the space of all the characteristic classes. In particular, we show that the (anti-)Poisson bracket becomes trivial when applied to the space of all the characteristic classes, instead the latter space can be endowed with another Lie bracket operation. Making use of this Lie bracket one can generate new characteristic classes involving higher derivatives of the homological vector field. The simplest characteristic classes are illustrated by the examples relating them to anomalies in the traditional BV or BFV-BRST theory and to characteristic classes of (singular) foliations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0407113

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic classesanomaliesalgebroidsBRST theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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