Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Notations
Ch. 1 Constrained Hamiltonian Systems
Ch. 2 Geometry of the Constraint Surface
Ch. 3 Gauge Invariance of the Action
Ch. 4 Generally Covariant Systems
Ch. 5 First-Class Constraints: Further Developments
Ch. 6 Fermi Degrees of Freedom: Classical Mechanics over a Grassmann Algebra
Ch. 7 Constrained Systems with Fermi Variables
Ch. 8 Graded Differential Algebras - Algebraic Structure of the BRST Symmetry
Ch. 9 BRST Construction in the Irreducible Case
Ch. 10 BRST Construction in the Reducible Case
Ch. 11 Dynamics of the Ghosts - Gauge-Fixed Action
Ch. 12 The BRST Transformation in Field Theory
Ch. 13 Quantum Mechanics of Constrained Systems: Standard Operator Methods
Ch. 14 BRST Operator Method - Quantum BRST Cohomology
Ch. 15 Path Integral for Unconstrained Systems
Ch. 16 Path Integral for Constrained Systems
Ch. 17 Antifield Formalism: Classical Theory
Ch. 18 Antifield Formalism and Path Integral
Ch. 19 Free Maxwell Theory. Abelian Two-Form Gauge Field
Ch. 20 Complementary Material
Bibliography
Index