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Non-Abelian Antibrackets

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v2

Abstract

The Δ\Delta-operator of the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism is the Hamiltonian BRST charge of Abelian shift transformations in the ghost momentum representation. We generalize this Δ\Delta-operator, and its associated hierarchy of antibrackets, to that of an arbitrary non-Abelian and possibly open algebra of any rank. We comment on the possible application of this formalism to closed string field theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9511066,
  title  = {Non-Abelian Antibrackets},
  author = {J. Alfaro and P. H. Damgaard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9511066},
  year   = {2009}
}

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