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Calculation of BRS cohomology with spectral sequences

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A method for finding the general form of the BRS cohomology spaceH for the various gauge and supersymmetry theories is presented. The method is adapted for use in the space of integrated local polynomials of the gauge fields and ghosts with arbitrary numbers of fields and dervivatives. The technique uses the Hodge decomposition in a Fock space with a Euclidean inner product, and combines this with spectral sequences to generate simple and soluble equations whose solutions span a simple spaceE ∞ isomorphic to the complicated spaceH. The technique is illustrated for pedagogic purposes by the detailed calculation of the ghost charge zero and one sectors ofH for Yang-Mills theory with gauge groupSO (32) in ten dimensions. The method is appropriate for supersymmetric theories, gravity, supergravity and superstrings where higher order terms with many derivatives occur naturally in the effective action.

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Communicated by A. Jaffe

Research supported in part by the Robert A. Welch Foundation and NSF Grants PHY 77-18762 and PHY 9009850

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Dixon, J.A. Calculation of BRS cohomology with spectral sequences. Commun.Math. Phys. 139, 495–526 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02101877

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