Classical BRST cohomology and invariant functions on constraint manifolds. I

DOI10.1007/BF02099008zbMath0757.53041MaRDI QIDQ1189182

Michael Forger, Johannes Kellendonk

Publication date: 26 September 1992

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

gauge invarianceconstraintsBRST symmetryBRST operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) General quantum mechanics and problems of quantization (81S99)

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BRST reduction of quantum algebras with \(^*\)-involutions, Local symmetries in gauge theories in a finite-dimensional setting, Classical states and the BRST charge, Characteristic classes of star products on Marsden-Weinstein reduced symplectic manifolds, Hamiltonian BRST-anti-BRST theory, BRST-INVARIANT DEFORMATIONS OF GEOMETRIC STRUCTURES IN TOPOLOGICAL FIELD THEORIES

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