Quantization of first-class constraints with structure functions

✍ Scribed by G. M. Tuynman

• Book ID: 104768611
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 443 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0377-9017
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00420370

✦ Synopsis

As part of a program to desuperize BRST symmetries, we show how to translate the BRST construction completely m terms of standard symplect~c geometry in the case where the constraints are derived from a foliatmn on a configuration space. The consequences of this approach on quantization are investigated. As a corollary, we solve (in a restricted setting) the problem of how to deal in quantization with (globally independent) first-class constraints with structure functions rather than structure constants.

AMS subject classifications (1980). 58F06, 81C99.