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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
Volume 51, Issue 1, Pages 169-177Publisher
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DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0282-y
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We provide an alternative to the gauge covariant horizontality condition, which is responsible for the derivation of the nilpotent (anti-) BRST symmetry transformations for the gauge and (anti-) ghost fields of a (3+1)-dimensional (4D) interacting 1-form non-Abelian gauge theory in the framework of the usual superfield approach to the Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) formalism. The above covariant horizontality condition is replaced by a gauge invariant restriction on the (4,2)-dimensional supermanifold, parameterised by a set of four spacetime coordinates, x(mu)(mu=0,1,2,3), and a pair of Grassmannian variables, theta and (theta) over bar. The latter condition enables us to derive the nilpotent (anti-) BRST symmetry transformations for all the fields of an interacting 1-form 4D non-Abelian gauge theory in which there is an explicit coupling between the gauge field and the Dirac fields. The key differences and the striking similarities between the above two conditions are pointed out clearly.
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