Global gauge conditions in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism
Mathematical Physics
2020-08-10 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory
Differential Geometry
math.MP
Abstract
In the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism, gauge conditions are expressed as Lagrangian submanifolds in the space of fields and antifields. We discuss a way of patching together gauge conditions over different parts of the space of fields, and apply this method to extend the light-cone gauge for the superparticle to a conic neighbourhood of the forward light-cone in momentum space.
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@article{arxiv.1911.11269,
title = {Global gauge conditions in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism},
author = {Ezra Getzler and Sean Weinz Pohorence},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.11269},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
23 pages, revised version accepted for publication. Amended Corollary 5.3 to show invariance of partition function under isotopies of Lagrangians