From BFV to BV and spacetime covariance
arXiv:2007.15912 · doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2020)141
Abstract
The BFV formulation of a given gauge theory is usually significantly easier to obtain than its BV formulation. Grigoriev and Damgaard introduced simple formulas for obtaining the latter from the former. Since BFV relies on the Hamiltonian version of the gauge theory, however, it does not come as a surprise that in general the resulting BV theory does not exhibit space-time covariance. We provide an explicit example of this phenomenon in two spacetime dimensions and show how to restore covariance of the BV data by improving the Grigoriev--Damgaard procedure with appropriate adaptations of its original formulas.
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