Is soft breaking of BRST symmetry consistent?

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Lavrov, Peter ^a   Lechtenfeld, Olaf ^b   Reshetnyak, Alexander ^c  

^a TOMSK STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF STRENGTH PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

BRST Symmetry; Nonperturbative Effects; RST Quantization

Indexed keywords

EID: 81155138175     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2011)043     Document Type: Article

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