Triplectic Quantization: A Geometrically Covariant Description of the Sp(2)-symmetric Lagrangian Formalism
arXiv:hep-th/9502031 · doi:10.1016/0550-3213(95)00176-S
Abstract
A geometric description is given for the Sp(2) covariant version of the field-antifield quantization of general constrained systems in the Lagrangian formalism. We develop differential geometry on manifolds in which a basic set of coordinates (`fields') have two superpartners (`antifields'). The quantization on such a triplectic manifold requires introducing several specific differential-geometric objects, whose properties we study. These objects are then used to impose a set of generalized master-equations that ensure gauge-independence of the path integral. The theory thus quantized is shown to extend to a level-1 theory formulated on a manifold that includes antifields to the Lagrange multipliers. We also observe intriguing relations between triplectic and ordinary symplectic geometry.
Revised version -- our treatment in Section 5 has been extended and several pedagogical notes inserted in Sections 2--4; more references added.
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