QUANTIZATION OF MASSIVE P-FORMS IN CURVED SPACE-TIME

Kirillova Elena Nikolaevna

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We consider massive p-forms in arbitrary D-dimensional curved space-time. Quantization of these models has been performed. The massive theories of p-forms do not possess gauge invariance, in contrary of massless theories. We restore the gauge invariance in massive p-forms models with help of the multi-step Stuckelberg procedure and we evaluate the effective actions. The result is presented in terms of d`Alembertians acting on p-forms.

Keywords: quantum fields in curved space-time, antisymmetric tensor fields, p-forms, gauge field theories, effective action

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Issue: 8, 2011

Series of issue: Issue 8

Pages: 24 — 30

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