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Antisymplectic Gauge Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-08-17 v4

Abstract

A general field-antifield BV formalism for antisymplectic first class constraints is proposed. It is as general as the corresponding symplectic BFV-BRST formulation and it is demonstrated to be consistent with a previously proposed formalism for antisymplectic second class constraints through a generalized conversion to corresponding first class constraints. Thereby the basic concept of gauge symmetry is extended to apply to quite a new class of gauge theories potentially possible to exist.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9704209,
  title  = {Antisymplectic Gauge Theories},
  author = {Igor Batalin and Robert Marnelius},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9704209},
  year   = {2019}
}

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13 pages,Latexfile,New introduction

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