Irreducible antifield analysis of p-form gauge theories

doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00202-0

Physics Letters B

Volume 425, Issues 1–2, 16 April 1998, Pages 97-103

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Abstract

The irreducible antifield formalism for p-form gauge theories with gauge invariant interaction terms is exposed. The ghosts of ghosts do not appear. The acyclicity of the Koszul-Tate operator is ensured without introducing antifields at resolution degrees higher that two.

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