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BRST symmetry and Darboux transformations in Abelian 2-form gauge theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-11-26 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We analyse the constraints of an Abelian 2-form gauge theory using Faddeev-Jackiw symplectic formalism. Further, this theory is treated as a constrained system in the context of Batalin-Fradkin-Vilkovisky formalism to retrieve the BRST symmetry. Using the fields decompositions the effective action for Abelian 2-form gauge theory is written in terms of diagonalized uncanonical part and BRST exact one. The nilpotent BRST and contracting homotopy σ\sigma closed transformations with field redefinitions are shown as the Darboux transformations used in the Faddeev-Jackiw formalism.

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@article{arxiv.1309.6458,
  title  = {BRST symmetry and Darboux transformations in Abelian 2-form gauge theory},
  author = {Sudhaker Upadhyay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.6458},
  year   = {2013}
}

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9 pages, No figures, Published version