Hermiticity and the Cohomology Condition in Topological Yang-Mills Theory
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چکیده
The symmetries of the topological Yang-Mills theory are studied in the Hamiltonian formalism and the generators of the twisted N=2 superPoincaré algebra are explicitly constructed. Noting that the twisted Lorentz generators do not generate the Lorentz symmetry of the theory, we relate the two by extracting from the latter the twisted version of the internal SU(2) generator. The hermiticity properties of the various generators are also considered throughout, and the boost generators are found to be non-hermitian. We then recover the BRST cohomology condition on physical states from representation theory arguments. CTP#2233 September 1993 †[email protected] ∗This work is supported in part by funds provided by the U. S. Department of Energy (D.O.E.) under contract #DE–AC02–76ER03069. 1
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