QUANTIZED BF THEORY IN THE SUPERFIBRE BUNDLE APPROACH

Citation
A. Aidaoui et M. Tahiri, QUANTIZED BF THEORY IN THE SUPERFIBRE BUNDLE APPROACH, Classical and quantum gravity, 14(7), 1997, pp. 1587-1596
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
ISSN journal
02649381
Volume
14
Issue
7
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1587 - 1596
Database
ISI
SICI code
0264-9381(1997)14:7<1587:QBTITS>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
We discuss the quantized, D = 4, non-Abelian BF theory within the supe rfibre bundle formalism. By introducing an even pseudotensorial 2-supe rform over a principal superfibre bundle with superconnection, we obta in the geometrical BRST and anti-BRST transformations of the fields oc curring in such a theory. These are the closed module classical equati ons of motion. Then, giving a prescription to construct the gauge-fixi ng action through a modified BRST operator, we determine the on-shell nilpotent BRST symmetry and the quantum action. We also show how this quantum action is invariant under the on-shell nilpotent anti-BRST sym metry obtained by modifying the geometrical anti-BRST operator. Howeve r, we find that, in relation to the anti-BRST symmetry, the quantum ac tion also possesses a vector supersymmetry of ghost number (+1).