Antisymmetric tensor gauge theory

Abstract

We analyze to all perturbative orders the properties of two possible quantum extensions of classically on-shell equivalent antisymmetric tensor gauge models in four dimensions. The first case, related to the soft breaking of a topological theory wants a gauge field of canonical dimension one. The other possibility, which assigns canonical dimension two to the gauge field, leads to the $\sigma$ model interpretation of the theory. In both instances we find that the models are anomaly free.

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