Covariant path integral for chiral-forms
- 15 July 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 54 (2) , 1606-1613
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.54.1606
Abstract
The covariant path integral for chiral bosons obtained by McClain, Wu, and Yu is generalized to chiral -forms. In order to handle the reducibility of the gauge transformations associated with the chiral -forms and with the new variables (in infinite number) that must be added to eliminate the second class constraints, the field-antifield formalism is used.
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