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On the quantisation and anomalies of antisymmetric tensor-spinors

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arxiv 2109.03963 v2 pith:R6UN7LIR submitted 2021-09-08 hep-th math-phmath.MP

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keywords anomaliesantisymmetricformalismghostquantisationtensor-spinorsalphaappearance
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We perform the quantisation of antisymmetric tensor-spinors (fermionic $p$-forms) $\psi^\alpha_{\mu_1 \dots \mu_p}$ using the Batalin-Vilkovisky field-antifield formalism. Just as for the gravitino ($p=1$), an extra propagating Nielsen-Kallosh ghost appears in quadratic gauges containing a differential operator. The appearance of this `third ghost' is described within the BV formalism for arbitrary reducible gauge theories. We then use the resulting spectrum of ghosts and the Atiyah-Singer index theorem to compute gravitational anomalies.

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