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BRST superspace and auxiliary fields for N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We use a Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) superspace approach to formulate off-shell nilpotent BRST and anti-BRST transformations in four dimensional N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. The method is based on the possibility of introducing auxiliary fields through the supersymmetric transformations of the superpartener of the gauge potential associated to a supersymmetric Yang-Mills connection. These fields are required to achieve the off-shell nilpotency of the BRST and anti-BRST operators. We also show how this off-shell structure is used to build the BRST and anti-BRST invariant gauge-fixing quantum action.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0510206,
  title  = {BRST superspace and auxiliary fields for N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory},
  author = {A. Aidaoui and A. Meziane and M. Tahiri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0510206},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

14 pages; Latex; no figure