BRST quantization of anomalous gauge theories
- Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68528, 21945 Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
It is shown how BRST quantization can be applied to a guage invariant sector of theories with anomalously broken symmetries. This result is used to show that shifting the anomalies to a classically trivial sector of fields (Wess-Zumino mechanism) makes it possible to quantize the physical sector using a standard BRST procedure, as for a nonanomalous theory. The trivial sector plays the role of a topological sector if the system is quantized without shifting the anomalies.
- OSTI ID:
- 44813
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, D, Journal Name: Physical Review, D Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 51; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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