The Elegance of Cohomological Methods
arXiv:1508.07226
Abstract
The BRST-Antifield reformulation of the deformation problem is reviewed in a self-contained and heuristic way. The focus is on finding all consistent interaction terms for fields propagating on a Minkowskian D-dimensional spacetime. Particular emphasis is put on the physical interpretation for the mathematical objects of the formalism.
introductory review, 25 pages, LaTeX
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