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Canonical brackets from continuous symmetries: Abelian 2-form gauge theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-05-10 v1

Abstract

We derive the canonical (anti-)commutation relations amongst the creation and annihilation operators of the various basic fields, present in the four (3 + 1)-dimensional (4D) free Abelian 2-from gauge theory, with the help of continuous symmetry transformations within the framework of Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) formalism. We show that all the six continuous symmetries of the theory lead to the exactly the same non-vanishing (anti-)commutator amongst the creation and annihilation operators of the normal mode expansion of the basic fields of the theory.

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@article{arxiv.1105.1446,
  title  = {Canonical brackets from continuous symmetries: Abelian 2-form gauge theory},
  author = {Saurabh Gupta and R. Kumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.1446},
  year   = {2011}
}

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