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BF AND ANTI-BF THEORIES IN THE GENERALIZED CONNECTION FORMALISM

Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Université d'Oran Es-senia, 31100 Oran, Algeria

Department of Physics, Metallurgy and Material Science, Technical University of Clausthal, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

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M. TAHIRI

Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Université d'Oran Es-senia, 31100 Oran, Algeria

Department of Physics, Metallurgy and Material Science, Technical University of Clausthal, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217732304016226Cited by:3 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We present a generalized connection formalism to explicitly determine an off-shell BRST–anti-BRST algebra for BF theories. This results in the construction of anti-BF theories based on an anti-BRST exact quantum action. These are not fundamentally different from BF theories, since they are in complete duality with respect to a mirror symmetry of the ghost numbers.

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PACS: 11.15.-q

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