A Note on "Irreducible" p-Form Gauge Theories with Stueckelberg Coupling

TL;DR

This paper presents a quantization method for p-form gauge theories with Stueckelberg coupling that avoids ghosts of ghosts, introduces natural irreducible gauge conditions, and briefly discusses interactions.

Contribution

It introduces an irreducible antifield-BRST quantization approach for p-form gauge theories with Stueckelberg coupling, simplifying the gauge structure.

Findings

Ghosts of ghosts are not needed in the quantization.

Irreducible gauge conditions are naturally derived.

Brief discussion on extending to interacting theories.

Abstract

p-form gauge theories with Stueckelberg coupling are quantized in an irreducible antifield-BRST way. As a consequence, neither the ghosts of ghosts nor their antifields appear. Some irreducible gauge conditions are inferred naturally within our formalism. In the end we briefly discuss the interacting case.