Elimination of the auxiliary fields in the antifield formalism

DOI10.1016/0370-2693(90)91739-XzbMath1332.81231OpenAlexW1975940492WikidataQ59307918 ScholiaQ59307918MaRDI QIDQ257951

Marc Henneaux

Publication date: 17 March 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(90)91739-x

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20)

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