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BRST analysis of the gauged SU(2) WZW model and Darboux’s transformations

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The four dimensional SU(2) WZW model coupled to electromagnetism is treated as a constraint system in the context of the Batalin-Fradkin-Vilkovisky formalism. Common features with the Faddeev-Jackiw approach are stressed and the same results are obtained. The Darboux’s transformations which are used to diagonalize the canonical one-form in the Faddeev-Jackiw formalism, are shown to transform the fields of the model into BRST and σ closed. The same analysis is also carried out in the case of spinor electrodynamics.

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  1. Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Thessaloniki, GR 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece

    J. E. Paschalis & P. I. Porfyriadis

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Work supported by the European Community Human Mobility program “Eurodafne”, Contract CHRX-CT92-00026.

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Paschalis, J.E., Porfyriadis, P.I. BRST analysis of the gauged SU(2) WZW model and Darboux’s transformations. Z Phys C - Particles and Fields 73, 557–561 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002880050347

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