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Quantization of spontaneously broken gauge theory based on the BFT-BFV Formalism

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v3

Abstract

We quantize the spontaneously broken abelian U(1) Higgs model by using the improved BFT and BFV formalisms. We have constructed the BFT physical fields, and obtain the first class observables including the Hamiltonian in terms of these fields. We have also explicitly shown that there are exact form invariances between the second class and first class quantities. Then, according to the BFV formalism, we have derived the corresponding Lagrangian having U(1) gauge symmetry. We also discuss at the classical level how one easily gets the first class Lagrangian from the symmetry-broken second class Lagrangian.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9712053,
  title  = {Quantization of spontaneously broken gauge theory based on the BFT-BFV Formalism},
  author = {Yong-Wan Kim and Young-Jai Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9712053},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

16 pages, latex, final version published in Mod. Phys. Lett. A