Odd scalar curvature in anti-Poisson geometry

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2008.03.066zbMATH Open1328.81210arXiv0712.3699OpenAlexW2142244765MaRDI QIDQ901673FDOQ901673

Authors: Igor A. Batalin, Klaus Bering 

Publication date: 12 January 2016

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

Abstract: Recent works have revealed that the recipe for field-antifield quantization of Lagrangian gauge theories can be considerably relaxed when it comes to choosing a path integral measure ho if a zero-order term

u_{ ho} is added to the Delta operator. The effects of this odd scalar term u_{ ho} become relevant at two-loop order. We prove that

u_{ ho} is essentially the odd scalar curvature of an arbitrary torsion-free connection that is compatible with both the anti-Poisson structure E and the density ho. This extends a previous result for non-degenerate antisymplectic manifolds to degenerate anti-Poisson manifolds that admit a compatible two-form.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3699

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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