By making use of the variational tricomplex, a covariant procedure is proposed for deriving the classical BRST charge from a given master-action.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizike, No. 11, pp. 157–164, November, 2016.
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Sharapov, A.A. BRST Theory in the Formalism of Variational Tricomplex. Russ Phys J 59, 1911–1920 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11182-017-0995-9
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