Reality conditions, reducibility, and ghosts
- 15 July 1995
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 52 (2) , 1102-1107
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.52.1102
Abstract
We examine two methods for incorporating complex first-class constraints into the BRST formalism when the complex conjugates of the constraints are linearly dependent upon the constraints, as is the case for general relativity in the Ashtekar variables.Keywords
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