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BV analysis for covariant and non-covariant actions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

The equivalence between the covariant and the non-covariant version of a constrained system is shown to hold after quantization in the framework of the field-antifield formalism. Our study covers the cases of Electromagnetism and Yang-Mills fields and sheds light on some aspects of the Faddeev-Popov method, for both the coratiant and non-covariant approaches, which had not been fully clarified in the literature.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9308076,
  title  = {BV analysis for covariant and non-covariant actions},
  author = {C. Ordóñez and J. París and J. M. Pons and R. Toldrà},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9308076},
  year   = {2009}
}

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21 pages, preprint # UTTG-02-93, UB-ECM-PF 93/5. To appear in Phys. Rev. D