Category Archives: BRST

Notes on BRST II: Lie Algebra Cohomology, Physicist’s Version

Posted on November 15, 2008 by woit

My initial plan was to have the second part of these notes be about gauge symmetry and the problems physicists have encountered in handling it, but as I started writing it quickly became apparent that explaining this in any detail … Continue reading →

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Short Bits

Posted on November 11, 2008 by woit

More about BRST is on its way, but in the meantime a lot of things have accumulated that might be of interest, so I wanted to do a quick posting about these. One of them does have to do with … Continue reading →

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Notes on BRST I: Representation Theory and Quantum Mechanics

Posted on November 5, 2008 by woit

This is the first posting of a planned series that will discuss the BRST method for handling gauge symmetries and related mathematical topics. I’ve been writing a more formal paper about this, but given the substantial amount of not-well-known background … Continue reading →

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