Geometrical reinterpretation of Faddeev–Popov ghost particles and BRS transformations
- 1 December 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 21 (12), 2834-2838
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.524385
Abstract
A classical geometrical interpretation of the ghosts fields is presented. BRS rules follow from the Cartan‐Maurer fibration theorem. The statistics of ghosts are explained and the effective quantum Lagrangian is derived without factorizing the volume of the gauge group. Topologically nontrivial ghost configurations are defined.Keywords
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