Parent field theory and unfolding in BRST first-quantized terms

Details Parent field theory and unfolding in BRST first-quantized terms Parent field theory and unfolding in BRST first-quantized terms

2004-06-22

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0406192v4

Commun.Math.Phys. 260 (2005) 147-181

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

LaTeX, amsart++, 40 pages, references added, final version to appear in Commun. Math. Phys

Scientific paper

10.1007/s00220-005-1408-4

For free-field theories associated with BRST first-quantized gauge systems, we identify generalized auxiliary fields and pure gauge variables already at the first-quantized level as the fields associated with algebraically contractible pairs for the BRST operator. Locality of the field theory is taken into account by separating the space--time degrees of freedom from the internal ones. A standard extension of the first-quantized system, originally developed to study quantization on curved manifolds, is used here for the construction of a first-order parent field theory that has a remarkable property: by elimination of generalized auxiliary fields, it can be reduced both to the field theory corresponding to the original system and to its unfolded formulation. As an application, we consider the free higher-spin gauge theories of Fronsdal.

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