Nilpotent symmetries for a free relativistic particle in augmented superfield formalism

Modern Physics Letters A

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 1767-1779

  Malik, R P ^a  

^a S N BOSE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

(anti )BRST symmetries; Augmented superfield formalism; Free scalar relativistic particle; Horizontality condition; Invariance of (super)charges on (super)manifolds

Indexed keywords

EID: 22544445919     PISSN: 02177323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217732305017500     Document Type: Article

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