On generalized gauge fixing in the field--antifield formalism

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2006.01.030zbMATH Open1109.81363arXivhep-th/0512131OpenAlexW2024501496MaRDI QIDQ877418FDOQ877418

P. H. Damgaard, Igor A. Batalin, Klaus Bering

Publication date: 20 April 2007

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

Abstract: We consider the problem of covariant gauge-fixing in the most general setting of the field-antifield formalism, where the action W and the gauge-fixing part X enter symmetrically and both satisfy the Quantum Master Equation. Analogous to the gauge-generating algebra of the action W, we analyze the possibility of having a reducible gauge-fixing algebra of X. We treat a reducible gauge-fixing algebra of the so-called first-stage in full detail and generalize to arbitrary stages. The associated "square root" measure contributions are worked out from first principles, with or without the presence of antisymplectic second-class constraints. Finally, we consider an W-X alternating multi-level generalization.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0512131

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zbMATH Keywords

antisymplectic geometrygauge fixingodd Laplaciansecond-class constraintsBV field--antifield formalismreducible gauge algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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