Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8196485 | Physics Letters B | 2007 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We discuss BRST and anti-BRST transformations for an Abelian antisymmetric gauge field in 4D and find that, in order for them to anticommute, we have to impose a condition on the auxiliary fields. This condition is similar to the Curci-Ferrari condition for the 4D non-Abelian 1-form gauge theories and represents a consistency requirement. We interpret it as a signal that our Abelian 2-form gauge field theory is based on gerbes. To support this interpretation we discuss, in particular, the case of the 1-gerbe for our present field theory and write the relevant equations and symmetry transformations for 2-gerbes.
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Authors
L. Bonora, R.P. Malik,