Canonical covariant quantization of the Brink-Schwarz superparticle
- 15 April 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 47 (8) , 3437-3442
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.47.3437
Abstract
A method for the covariant canonical quanitzation of a wide class of gauge theories with reducible first- and second-class constraints which includes the Brink-Schwarz superparticle is obtained. The application to the Brink-Schwarz superparticle is discussed in detail. The canonical Batalin-Fradkin-Vilkovisky construction of the correct Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) operator and the BRST-invariant effective action is presented and shown to agree with the expressions obtained by Kallosh and Bergshoeff using other methods. The correct gauge-fixing procedure to recover the Brink-Schwarz superparticle action is discussed.Keywords
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