Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1993-04-14
Phys.Lett. B311 (1993) 123-129
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
14 pages LaTeX file, ULB-PMIF-93/01
Scientific paper
10.1016/0370-2693(93)90544-R
The antibracket in BRST theory is known to define a map $\rm{H^p \times H^q \longrightarrow H^{p+q+1}}$ associating with two equivalence classes of BRST invariant observables of respective ghost number p and q an equivalence class of BRST invariant observables of ghost number p+q+1. It is shown that this map is trivial in the space of all functionals, i.e., that its image contains only the zeroth class. However it is generically non trivial in the space of local functionals. Implications of this result for the problem of consistent interactions among fields with a gauge freedom are then drawn. It is shown that the obstructions to constructing such interactions lie precisely in the image of the antibracket map and are accordingly inexistent if one does not insist on locality. However consistent local interactions are severely constrained. The example of the Chern-Simons theory is considered. It is proved that the only consistent, local, Lorentz covariant interactions for the abelian models are exhausted by the non-abelian Chern-Simons extensions.
Barnich Glenn
Henneaux Marc
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