Gauge Fixing and BFV Quantization
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
Nonsingularity conditions are established for the BFV gauge-fixing fermion which are sufficient for it to lead to the correct path integral for a theory with constraints canonically quantized in the BFV approach. The conditions ensure that anticommutator of this fermion with the BRST charge regularises the path integral by regularising the trace over non-physical states in each ghost sector. The results are applied to the quantization of a system which has a Gribov problem, using a non-standard form of the gauge-fixing fermion.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9902133,
title = {Gauge Fixing and BFV Quantization},
author = {Alice Rogers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9902133},
year = {2009}
}
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14 pages