A BV subtlety
Abstract
The standard BV complex is never acyclic provided that the equations of motion have solutions and the admissible class of functions is general enough, unless one introduces second-order antifields. This phenomenon is explicitly illustrated for the harmonic oscillator and the free electromagnetic field.
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