On generalized gauge fixing in the field--antifield formalism

DOI10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2006.01.030zbMath1109.81363arXivhep-th/0512131OpenAlexW2024501496MaRDI QIDQ877418

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

Publication date: 20 April 2007

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

second-class constraintsgauge fixingantisymplectic geometryodd LaplacianBV field--antifield formalismreducible gauge algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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