Classical and quantum aspects of the extended antifield formalism

Abstract

Starting from a solution to the classical Batalin-Vilkovisky master equation,an extended solution to an extended master equation is constructed by coupling all the observables, the anomaly candidates and the generators of global symmetries. The construction of the formalism and its applications in the context of the renormalization of generic and potentially anomalous gauge theories are reviewed.

94 pages Latex file. These d'agregation ULB (June 2000). Proceedings of the Spring School "QFT and Hamiltonian Systems", Calimanesti, Romania, May 2-7, 2000