Published May 15, 1995
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Journal article
BRST quantization of anomalous gauge theories
Creators
- 1. Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68528, 21945 Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Description
It is shown how BRST quantization can be applied to a guage invariant sector of theories with anomalously broken symmetries. This result is used to show that shifting the anomalies to a classically trivial sector of fields (Wess-Zumino mechanism) makes it possible to quantize the physical sector using a standard BRST procedure, as for a nonanomalous theory. The trivial sector plays the role of a topological sector if the system is quantized without shifting the anomalies
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 51
- Journal Issue
- 10
- Journal Page Range
- p. 5905-5910.
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 26060987
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- GAUGE INVARIANCE; LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION; QUANTIZATION; SYMMETRY BREAKING; TOPOLOGY; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
- Descriptors DEC
- FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY