A Note on "Irreducible" p-Form Gauge Theories with Stueckelberg Coupling

Abstract

p-form gauge theories with Stueckelberg coupling are quantized in an irreducible antifield-BRST way. As a consequence, neither the ghosts of ghosts nor their antifields appear. Some irreducible gauge conditions are inferred naturally within our formalism. In the end we briefly discuss the interacting case.

10 pag, latex 2.09, no figures

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