Eur. Phys. J. C (2019) 79: 718
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7233-2

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Unfree gauge symmetry in the BV formalism

Department of Quantum Field Theory, Tomsk State University, Lenin ave. 36, Tomsk, 634050, Russia

^* e-mail: dsc@phys.tsu.ru

Received: 2 August 2019
Accepted: 17 August 2019
Published online: 27 August 2019

Abstract

The BV formalism is proposed for the theories where the gauge symmetry parameters are unfree, being constrained by differential equations.