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Absolutely anticommuting (anti-)BRST symmetry transformations for topologically massive Abelian gauge theory

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We demonstrate the existence of the nilpotent and absolutely anticommuting Becchi–Rouet–Stora–Tyutin (BRST) and anti-BRST symmetry transformations for the four (3+1)-dimensional (4D) topologically massive Abelian U(1) gauge theory that is described by the coupled Lagrangian densities (which incorporate the celebrated (B∧F) term). The absolute anticommutativity of the (anti-) BRST symmetry transformations is ensured by the existence of a Curci–Ferrari type restriction that emerges from the superfield formalism as well as from the equations of motion which are derived from the above coupled Lagrangian densities. We show the invariance of the action from the point of view of the symmetry considerations as well as superfield formulation. We discuss, furthermore, the topological term within the framework of superfield formalism and provide the geometrical meaning of its invariance under the (anti-)BRST symmetry transformations.

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    S. Gupta, R. Kumar & R. P. Malik

  2. DST Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221 005, India

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Gupta, S., Kumar, R. & Malik, R.P. Absolutely anticommuting (anti-)BRST symmetry transformations for topologically massive Abelian gauge theory. Eur. Phys. J. C 70, 491–502 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1468-2

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