Irreducible Antifield Analysis of $p$-Form Gauge Theories

Abstract

The irreducible antifield formalism for $p$-form gauge theories with gauge invariant interaction terms is exposed. The ghosts of ghosts do not appear. The acyclicity of the Koszul-Tate operator is ensured without introducing antifields at resolution degrees higher that two.

11 pag, latex 2.09, no figures

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• Characteristic cohomology of $p$-form gauge theories

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