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On algebras of gauge transformations in a general setting

arXiv:math/0411635

Abstract

We consider a Lagrangian system on a fiber bundle and its gauge transformations depending on derivatives of dynamic variables and gauge parameters of arbitrary order. We say that gauge transformations form an algebra if they generate a nilpotent BRST operator.

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