Publication details
Geometry of the Batalin-Fradkin-Vilkovisky Theorem
| Authors | |
|---|---|
| Year of publication | 1998 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS |
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| Citation | |
| Web | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9709003 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.532405 |
| Field | Theoretical physics |
| Keywords | GENERALIZED CANONICAL QUANTIZATION; GAUGE-THEORIES; 2ND-CLASS CONSTRAINTS; FORMALISM; SYSTEMS; RENORMALIZATION; BOSON |
| Description | We describe gauge-fixing at the level of virtual paths in the path integral as a non-symplectic BRST-type of flow on the path phase space. As a consequence a gauge-fixed, non-local symplectic structure arises. Restoring of locality is discussed. A pertinent anti-Lie-bracket and an infinite dimensional group of gauge fermions are introduced. Generalizations to Sp(2)-symmetric BLT-theories are made. |