BRS and anti-BRS symmetry in topological Yang-Mills theory
Sep, 199217 pages
Published in:
- Nucl.Phys.B 392 (1993) 369-384
e-Print:
- hep-th/9209072 [hep-th]
Report number:
- DAMTP-R-92-33
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Abstract:
We incorporate both BRS symmetry and anti-BRS symmetry into the quantisation of topological Yang--Mills theory. This refines previous treatments which consider only the BRS symmetry. Our formalism brings out very clearly the geometrical meaning of topological Yang--Mills theory in terms of connections and curvatures in an enlarged superspace; and its simple relationship to the geometry of ordinary Yang--Mills theory. We also discover a certain SU(3) triality between physical spacetime, and the two ghost directions of superspace. Finally, we demonstrate how to recover the usual gauge-fixed topological Yang--Mills action from our formalism.- gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
- field theory: topological
- invariance: Becchi-Rouet-Stora
- supersymmetry: superspace
- symmetry: SU(3)
- differential forms
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