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Gaugeon formalism for the two-form gauge fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-12-06 v1

Abstract

We present a BRST symmetric gaugeon formalism for the two-form gauge fields. A set of vector gaugeon fields is introduced as a quantum gauge freedom. One of the gaugeon fields satisfies a higher derivative field equation; this property is necessary to change the gauge-fixing parameter of the two-form gauge field. A naive Lagrangian for the vector gaugeon fields is itself invariant under a gauge transformation for the vector gaugeon field. The Lagrangian of our theory includes the gauge-fixing terms for the gaugeon fields and corresponding Faddeev--Popov ghosts terms.

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@article{arxiv.1707.09086,
  title  = {Gaugeon formalism for the two-form gauge fields},
  author = {Masataka Aochi and Ryusuke Endo and Hikaru Miura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.09086},
  year   = {2019}
}

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17pages, 3 figures

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