Superspace Formulation for the BRST Quantization of the Chiral Schwinger Model

TL;DR

This paper extends the superspace formulation of BRST quantization to the Chiral Schwinger model, demonstrating how anomalies and quantum actions are unified within a superfield framework.

Contribution

It introduces a superspace approach for the BRST quantization of the Chiral Schwinger model, integrating anomalies and quantum actions into a single superfield representation.

Findings

Unified superfield representation of anomalies and quantum actions.

Extension of superspace BRST quantization to the Chiral Schwinger model.

Potential for simplifying anomaly analysis in gauge theories.

Abstract

It has recently been shown that the Field Antifield quantization of anomalous irreducible gauge theories with closed algebra can be represented in a BRST superspace where the quantum action at one loop order, including the Wess Zumino term, and the anomalies show up as components of the same superfield. We show here how the Chiral Schwinger model can be represented in this formulation.