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The Elegance of Cohomological Methods

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-10-07 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The BRST-Antifield reformulation of the deformation problem is reviewed in a self-contained and heuristic way. The focus is on finding all consistent interaction terms for fields propagating on a Minkowskian D-dimensional spacetime. Particular emphasis is put on the physical interpretation for the mathematical objects of the formalism.

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@article{arxiv.1508.07226,
  title  = {The Elegance of Cohomological Methods},
  author = {Gustavo Lucena Gómez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.07226},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

introductory review, 25 pages, LaTeX

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