Freedman-Townsend vertex from Hamiltonian BRST cohomology

Abstract

Consistent interactions among a set of two-form gauge fields in four dimensions are derived along a Hamiltonian cohomological procedure. It is shown that the deformation of the BRST charge and BRST-invariant Hamiltonian for the free model leads to the Freedman-Townsend interaction vertex. The resulting interaction deforms both the gauge transformations and reducibility relations, but not the algebra of gauge transformations.

Latex 2.09, 16 pages, some errors in a few formulas corrected, two more references added, main conclusions and results unaffected, the final form to appear in Class. Quantum Grav

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