Eur. Phys. J. C (2012) 72: 2031
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2031-0

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

General solution of classical master equation for reducible gauge theories

Department of Mathematics, Kuban State Technological University, Krasnodar, 350072, Russia

^* e-mail: bratchikov@kubstu.ru

Received: 3 December 2011
Revised: 26 April 2012
Published online: 5 June 2012

Abstract

We give the general solution to the classical master equation (S,S)=0 for reducible gauge theories. To this aim, we construct a new coordinate system in the extended configuration space and transform the equation by changing variables. Then it can be solved by an iterative method.