Lagrangian Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin treatment of collective coordinates
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
The Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) treatment for the quantization of collective coordinates is considered in the Lagrangian formalism. The motion of a particle in a Riemannian manifold is studied in the case when the classical solutions break a non-abelian global invariance of the action. Collective coordinates are introduced, and the resulting gauge theory is quantized in the BRST antifield formalism. The partition function is computed perturbatively to two-loops, and it is shown that the results are independent of gauge-fixing parameters.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9603041,
title = {Lagrangian Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin treatment of collective coordinates},
author = {Juan P. Garrahan and Martin Kruczenski and Daniel R. Bes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9603041},
year = {2009}
}
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