BRS and anti-BRS symmetry in topological Yang-Mills theory
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 space-time, and the two ghost directions of superspace. Finally, we demonstrate how to recover the usual gauge-fixed topological Yang-Mills action from our formalism.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Physics B
- Pub Date:
- March 1993
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/9209072
- Bibcode:
- 1993NuPhB.392..369P
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 17 pages, harvmac, DAMTP R92/33