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Sp(2)-covariant quantization of the Freedman-Townsend model

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A model antisymmetric rank two tensor field is quantized in both the Lagrangian and the Hamiltonian versions of the expanded BRST quantization. It is demonstrated that the Lagrangian quantization results in a unitary S-matrix.

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  1. P. M. Lavrov
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  2. P. Yu. Moshin
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Study supported in part by the Russian Fund for Fundamental Research, Project No. 94-02-03234, and by the International Science Fund, Grant RI 1000.

Tomsk Pedagogical Institute. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 2, pp. 72–78, February, 1995.

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Lavrov, P.M., Moshin, P.Y. Sp(2)-covariant quantization of the Freedman-Townsend model. Russ Phys J 38, 164–170 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00560241

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