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Spacetime locality of the antifield formalism: General theorems illustrated by means of examples

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Integrable Models and Strings

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Some general techniques and theorems on the spacetime locality of the antifield formalism are illustrated in the familiar cases of the free scalar field, electromagnetism and Yang-Mills theory. Common misconceptions in the field are corrected.

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  1. Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine C.P. 231, B-1050, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Marc Henneaux

  2. Centro de Estudios Científicos de Santiago, Casilla, 16443, Santiago 9, Chile

    Marc Henneaux

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Anton Alekseev Antero Hietamäki Katri Huitu Alexei Morozov Antti Niemi

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Henneaux, M. (1994). Spacetime locality of the antifield formalism: General theorems illustrated by means of examples. In: Alekseev, A., Hietamäki, A., Huitu, K., Morozov, A., Niemi, A. (eds) Integrable Models and Strings. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 436. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58453-6_8

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