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A Noncommutative Note on the Antibracket Formalism

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We introduce a noncommutative calculus on the odd-symplectic superspace \scri\scri of fields and antifields. To this end we have to extend \scri\scri to \exscri\exscri by including an extra anticommuting field η\eta. As a consequence we show that the commutator induced on \exnice×T(\exnice)\exnice\times T^\star(\exnice) is proportional to the antibracket. The Δ\Delta-operator is an element of the quotient space of derivations twisted by the antibracket A\derA\der and \der\der. The natural measure on \exscri\exscri is shown to be invariant under canonical transformations provided a certain 'wave equation' is satisfied.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9309080,
  title  = {A Noncommutative Note on the Antibracket Formalism},
  author = {F. Vanderseypen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9309080},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

5 pages, LaTeX, Leuven KUL-TF-93/38