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BRST-BV Quantum Actions for Constrained Totally-Symmetric Integer HS Fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-03-05 v4 Mathematical Physics Dynamical Systems math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

A constrained BRST-BV Lagrangian formulation for totally symmetric massless HS fields in a dd-dimensional Minkowski space is extended to a non-minimal constrained BRST-BV Lagrangian formulation by using a non-minimal BRST operator QctotQ_{c|\mathrm{tot}} with non-minimal Hamiltonian BFV oscillators C,P,λ,π\overline{C}, \overline{\mathcal{P}}, \lambda, \pi, as well as antighost and Nakanishi-Lautrup tensor fields, in order to introduce an admissible self-consistent gauge condition. The gauge-fixing procedure involves an operator gauge-fixing BRST-BFV Fermion ΨH\Psi_H as a kernel of the gauge-fixing BRST-BV Fermion functional Ψ\Psi, manifesting the concept of BFV-BV duality. A Fock-space quantum action with non-minimal BRST-extended off-shell constraints is constructed as a shift of the total generalized field-antifield vector by a variational derivative of the gauge-fixing Fermion Ψ\Psi in a total BRST-BV action S0sΨ=dη0χtotcΨ0QctotχtotcΨ0S^{\Psi}_{0|s} = \int d \eta_0 \langle \chi^{\Psi{} 0}_{\mathrm{tot}|c} \big| Q_{c|\mathrm{tot}}\big| \chi^{\Psi{} 0}_{\mathrm{tot}|c}\rangle. We use a gauge condition which depends on two gauge parameters, thereby extending the case of RξR_\xi-gauges. For triplet and duplet formulations we explored the representations with only traceless field-antifield and source variables. For the generating functionals of Green's functions, BRST symmetry transformations are suggested and Ward identities are obtained.

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@article{arxiv.2010.15741,
  title  = {BRST-BV Quantum Actions for Constrained Totally-Symmetric Integer HS Fields},
  author = {Čestmir Burdík and Alexander A. Reshetnyak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.15741},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

21 pages, no figures, typos corrected; footnote on interacting terms, remark on double-traceless field representation for correct path integral with Eqs. (90)-(93), representation for quantum BV action, path integral for cubic vertex with Eqs.(97)-(101) and 1 reference added; conclusion improved; published version in Nucl. Phys. B

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