The BFV Approach for a Nonlocal Symmetry of QED

Abstract

In this paper we use the Batalin-Fradkin-Vilkovisky formalism to study a recently proposed nonlocal symmetry of QED. In the BFV extended phase space we show that this symmetry stems from a canonical transformation in the ghost sector.

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