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The Antifield-BRST Formalism for Gauge Theories

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It has been recognized for some time now that the BRST method provides one of the most powerful tools for quantizing theories endowed with a local gauge freedom. This method is extremely useful not only in the path-integral approach, but also in the operator formalism.

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Henneaux, M. (1992). The Antifield-BRST Formalism for Gauge Theories. In: Teitelboim, C., Zanelli, J. (eds) Quantum Mechanics of Fundamental Systems 3. Series of the Centro de Estudios Científicos de Santiago. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3374-0_6

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