Hamiltonian BRST and Batalin-Vilkovisky formalisms for second quantization of gauge theories

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 254, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 581-601

  Barnich, Glenn ^a,c   Grigoriev, Maxim ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

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EID: 13844255893     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-004-1275-4     Document Type: Article

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