Covariant factor ordering of gauge systems using ghost variables. I. Constraint rescaling

DOI10.1063/1.528414zbMath0672.58048OpenAlexW2079743720MaRDI QIDQ3825808

David McMullan, J. M. Paterson

Publication date: 1989

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.528414

zbMATH Keywords

operator orderingquantization of constrained systemsBRST ghosts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Geometric quantization (53D50)

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Covariant factor ordering of gauge systems using ghost variables. II. States and observables ⋮ Geometric quantization of the BRST charge ⋮ Reduction, quantization, and nonunimodular groups ⋮ Constraint quantization of parametrized relativistic gauge systems in curved spacetimes ⋮ Constraint rescaling in refined algebraic quantisation: Momentum constraint ⋮ On the quantization of reducible gauge systems

Cites Work

• The Batalin, Fradkin, and Vilkovisky formalism for higher-order theories
• Covariant factor ordering of gauge systems using ghost variables. II. States and observables
• Yang–Mills theory and the Batalin–Fradkin–Vilkovisky formalism

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