Abelian 3-form gauge theory: superfield approach
Abstract
We discuss a D-dimensional Abelian 3-form gauge theory within the framework of Bonora-Tonin's superfield formalism and derive the off-shell nilpotent and absolutely anticommuting Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) and anti-BRST symmetry transformations for this theory. To pay our homage to Victor I. Ogievetsky (1928-1996), who was one of the inventors of Abelian 2-form (antisymmetric tensor) gauge field, we go a step further and discuss the above D-dimensional Abelian 3-form gauge theory within the framework of BRST formalism and establish that the existence of the (anti-)BRST invariant Curci-Ferrari (CF) type of restrictions is the hallmark of any arbitrary p-form gauge theory (discussed within the framework of BRST formalism).
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@article{arxiv.1112.6303,
title = {Abelian 3-form gauge theory: superfield approach},
author = {R. P. Malik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.6303},
year = {2015}
}
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LaTeX file, 8 pages, Talk delivered at BLTP, JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia