On the Quantization of Reducible Gauge Systems
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چکیده
Reducible gauge theories with constraints linear in the momenta are quantized. The equivalence of the reduced phase space quantization, Dirac quantization and BRST quantization is established. The ghosts of ghosts are found to play a crucial role in the equivalence proof. † On leave of absence from Instituto de Astronomı́a y F́ısica del Espacio, C.C.167, Sucursal 28, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de F́ısica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pab.I, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina. †† Also at Centro de Estudios Cient́ıficos de Santiago, Casilla 16443, Santiago 9, Chile. On leave of absence from Universitatea din Craiova, Str.A.I.Cuza 13, Facultatea de Fizica, 1100 Craiova, Romania.
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