Quantization of Gauge Systems (Softcover)

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Chapters

Some of these chapters contain their own appendices. All of them contain exercises.

1. Constrained Hamiltonian Systems
2. Geometry of the Constraint Surface
3. Gauge Invariance of the Action
4. Generally Covariant Systems
5. First-Class Constraints
6. Fermi Degrees of Freedom: Classical Mechanics over a Grassmann Algebra
7. Constrained Systems with Fermi Variables
8. Graded Differential Algebras—Algebraic Structure of the BRST Symmetry
9. BRST Construction in the Irreducible Case
10. BRST Construction in the Reducible Case
11. Dynamics of the Ghosts—Gauge-Fixed Action
12. The BRST Transformation in Field Theory
13. Quantum Mechanics of Constrained Systems: Standard Operator Methods
14. BRST Operator Method—Quantum BRST Cohomology
15. Path Integral for Unconstrained Systems
16. Path Integral for Constrained Systems
17. Artificial Formalism: Classical Theory
18. Artificial Formalism and Path Integral
19. Free Maxwell Theory. Abelian Two-Form Gauge Field
20. Complementary Material