Non-Abelian BFFT embedding, Schrödinger quantization and the field–antifield anomaly of the O(N) nonlinear sigma model

Dec, 2000
15 pages
Published in:
  • Int.J.Mod.Phys.A 31 (2016) 01, 1550225
  • Published: Jan 4, 2016
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Abstract:
We embed the O(N) nonlinear sigma model in a non-Abelian gauge theory. As a first class system, it is quantized using two different approaches: the functional Schr\"odinger method and the non-local field-antifield procedure. Firstly, the quantization is performed with the functional Schr\"{o}dinger method, for N=2, obtaining the wave functionals for the ground and excited states. In the second place, using the BV formalism we compute the one-loop anomaly. This important result shows that the classical gauge symmetries, appearing due to the conversion via BFFT method, are broken at the quantum level.
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  • BFFT conversion method
  • nonlocal BV quantization
  • nonlinear sigma model
  • sigma model: nonlinear
  • symmetry: O(N)
  • dimension: 2