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The Gauge-Fixing Fermion in BRST Quantisation

Alice Rogers

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9701070

Abstract

Conditions which must be satisfied by the gauge-fixing fermion χ used in the BRST quantisation of constrained systems are established. These ensure that the extension of the Hamiltonian by the gauge-fixing term [Ω, χ] (where Ω is the BRST charge) gives the correct path integral. (Lecture given at the conference Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity II, Santa Margherita, Italy, September 1996)

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