{"@context":["https://w3id.org/fdo/context/v1",{"schema":"https://schema.org/","prov":"http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#","fdo":"https://w3id.org/fdo/vocabulary/"}],"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q1122174","@type":"DigitalObject","kernel":{"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q1122174","digitalObjectType":"https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle","primaryIdentifier":"mardi:Q1122174","kernelVersion":"v1","immutable":true,"modified":"2026-01-06T22:02:56Z"},"profile":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ScholarlyArticle","@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1122174","name":"The geometry of BRS transformations","headline":"The geometry of BRS transformations","description":"scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4105814","url":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1122174","datePublished":"1990-00-00","author":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q676560"}],"publisher":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q226831"}],"comment":"In 1976 \\textit{C. Becchi}, \\textit{A. Rouet} and \\textit{R. Stora} [Renormalization of gauge theories, Ann. Phys. 98, 287-321 (1976)] noticed that in gauge field theories the effective Lagrangian, which is no longer gauge invariant, is still invariant under a new class of transformations now called BRS transformations  \\[  sA=d\\eta +[A,\\eta],\\quad s\\eta =-[\\eta,\\eta]  \\]  where A is the potential field (connection one form) and \\(\\eta\\) is the ghost field. We show how these BRS transformations can be interpreted as purely differential geometric objects. We define a general BRS cohomology \\(H^{q,p}\\) of the infinite dimensional Lie algebra \\({\\mathfrak g}\\) of infinitesimal gauge transformations with respect to an induced representation. As a special case, namely with respect to the adjoint representation, we obtain the classical BRS transformations as coboundary operator \\(s: {\\mathbb{C}}^{q,p}\\to {\\mathbb{C}}^{q+1,p}\\) of this complex. The Wess-Zumino consistency condition is expressed as \\(s^ 2=0\\), while the ghost field \\(\\eta\\) is interpreted as the canonical Maurer-Cartan form on the infinite dimensional Lie group G of gauge transformations."},"provenance":{"prov:generatedAtTime":"2026-01-06T22:02:56Z","prov:wasAttributedTo":"MaRDI Knowledge Graph"}}