• Title of article

    BRST quantization of non-abelian BF topological theories

  • Author/Authors

    M.I. Caicedo، نويسنده , , R. Gianvittorio، نويسنده , , A. Restuccia، نويسنده , , J. Stephany، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1995
  • Pages
    8
  • From page
    292
  • To page
    299
  • 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 BRST 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.
  • Journal title
    PHYSICS LETTERS B
  • Serial Year
    1995
  • Journal title
    PHYSICS LETTERS B
  • Record number

    905303