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A NOTE ON THE ANTIBRACKET FORMALISM

EDWARD WITTEN

School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Olden Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA

Research supported in part by NSF Grant 86–20266 and NSF Waterman Grant 88–17521.

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217732390000561Cited by:106

Abstract

Certain aspects of the antifield-antibracket formalism for quantization of gauge theories are clarified. In particular, we discuss the geometrical meaning of the antifields, the geometric meaning of the antibracket, and the geometric meaning of the operator Δ that appears in the quantum correction to the master equation. Finally, we point out that the antibracket formalism contains most of the ingredients that would be needed to formulate an abstract Chern-Simons Lagrangian, as in open string field theory.

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