BRST QUANTIZATION OF NON-ABELIAN BF TOPOLOGICAL THEORIES

CAICEDO, MI; GIANVITTORIO, R; RESTUCCIA, A; STEPHANY, J

Abstract

The off-shell nilpotent BRST charge and the BRST invariant effective action for non-abelian BF topological theories over D-dimensional manifolds are explicitly constructed. These theories have the feature of being reducible with exactly D - 3 stages of reducibility. The adequate extended phase space including the different levels of ghosts for ghosts is explicitly obtained. Using the structure of the resulting ERST charge we show that for topological BF theories the semi-classical approximation completely describes the quantum theory. The independence of the partition function on the metric also follows from our explicit construction in a straightforward way.

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Título según WOS: ID WOS:A1995RK51400016 Not found in local WOS DB
Título de la Revista: PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volumen: 354
Número: 3-4
Editorial: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Fecha de publicación: 1995
Página de inicio: 292
Página final: 299
DOI:

10.1016/0370-2693(95)00677-D

Notas: ISI