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This article, which is a review with substantial original material, is meant to offer a comprehensive description of the superfield representations of the BRST and anti-BRST algebras and their applications to some field-theoretic topics.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-12 L. Bonora , R. P. Malik

We apply the well-established techniques of geometrical superfield approach to Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) formalism in the context of four (3 + 1)-dimensional (4D) dynamical non-Abelian 2-form gauge theory by exploiting its inherent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Krishna , A. Shukla , R. P. Malik

We analyze the quantum ABJM theory on ${\cal N} = 1$ superspace in different gauges. We study the Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formulation for this model. By developing field/antifield dependent BRST transformation we establish connection…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-27 Sudhaker Upadhyay , Diptarka Das

It is outlined how deformations of field theoretical rigid symmetries can be constructed and classified by cohomological means in the extended antifield formalism. Special attention is devoted to deformations referring only to a subset of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Friedemann Brandt

We exploit the geometrical superfield formalism to derive the local, covariant and continuous Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) symmetry transformations and the non-local, non-covariant and continuous dual-BRST symmetry transformations for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. P. Malik

Within the framework of Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) formalism, we discuss some novel features of a two (1+1)-dimensional (2D) non-Abelian 1-form gauge theory (without any interaction with matter fields). Besides the usual off-shell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 N. Srinivas , S. Kumar , B. K. Kureel , R. P. Malik

We demonstrate the existence of the nilpotent and absolutely anticommuting Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) and anti-BRST symmetry transformations for the four (3 + 1)-dimensional (4D) topologically massive Abelian U(1) gauge theory that is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-23 S. Gupta , R. Kumar , R. P. Malik

We derive the off-shell nilpotent and absolutely anticommuting (anti-)BRST symmetry transformations for any arbitrary D-dimensional St$\ddot u$ckelberg-modified massive Abelian 3-form theory within the framework of augmented version of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 A. K. Rao , R. P. Malik

We exploit the theoretical strength of augmented version of superfield approach (AVSA) to Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) formalism to express the nilpotency and absolute anticommutativity properties of the (anti-)BRST and (anti-)co-BRST…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-16 S. Kumar , B. Chauhan , R. P. Malik

In this paper we analyse super-Chern-Simons theory in $\mathcal{N} =1$ superspace formalism, in the presence of a boundary. We modify the Lagrangian for the Chern-Simons theory in such a way that it is supersymmetric even in the presence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Mir Faizal , Douglas J. Smith

We derive the off-shell nilpotent Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) and anti-BRST symmetry transformations for {\it all} the fields of a free Abelian 2-form gauge theory by exploiting the geometrical superfield approach to BRST formalism.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-08 R. P. Malik

We capture the off-shell as well as the on-shell nilpotent Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) and anti-BRST symmetry invariance of the Lagrangian densities of the four (3 + 1)-dimensional (4D) (non-)Abelian 1-form gauge theories within the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. P. Malik

We discuss various symmetry properties of the Lagrangian density of a four (3 + 1)-dimensional (4D) free Abelian 2-form gauge theory within the framework of Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) formalism. The present free Abelian gauge theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. P. Malik

We consider the general gauge theory with a closed irreducible gauge algebra possessing the non-anomalous global (super)symmetry in the case when the gauge fixing procedure violates the global invariance of classical action. The theory is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 I. L. Buchbinder , P. M. Lavrov

We derive the off-shell nilpotent (fermionic) (anti-)BRST symmetry transformations by exploiting the (anti-)chiral superfield approach (ACSA) to Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) formalism for the interacting Abelian 1-form gauge theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-30 B. Chauhan , S. Kumar , R. P. Malik

Using deformation theory based on BRST cohomology, a supergravity model is constructed which interpolates through a continuous deformation parameter between new minimal supergravity with an extra U(1) gauge multiplet and standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Friedemann Brandt

We study phase structure of mass-deformed ABJM theory which is a three dimensional $\mathcal{N}=6$ superconformal theory deformed by mass parameters and has the gauge group $\text{U}(N)\times \text{U}(N)$ with Chern-Simons levels $(k,-k)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Masazumi Honda , Tomoki Nosaka , Kazuma Shimizu , Seiji Terashima

We obtain the off-shell nilpotent Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) and anti-BRST symmetry transformations (corresponding to the infinitesimal classical gauge symmetry transformations) for the modified massive three $(2+1)$-dimensional (3D)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-08 S. K. Panja , E. Harikumar , R. P. Malik

We consider a deformation of three dimensional BF theory by means of the antifield BRST formalism. Possible deformations for the action and the gauge symmetries are analyzed. We find a new class of gauge theories which include nonabelian BF…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Noriaki Ikeda

We present the Curci-Ferrari model on the lattice. In the massless case the topological interpretation of this model with its double BRST symmetry relates to the Neuberger 0/0 problem which we extend to include the ghost/anti-ghost…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Lorenz von Smekal , Marco Ghiotti , Anthony G Williams