Variations on Homological Reduction
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In this paper, we are concerned with the BFV-reduction of first class constraints in classsical Hamiltonian mechanics and deformation quantization. As a result, we obtain continuous star products for certain singular reduced symplectic quotients. We relate the notion of "irreducibility" of a constraint to the notion of complete intersection used in commutative algebra. We generalize the classical BFV construction to the case of projective Tate generators using a super-Poisson bracket discovered by M. Rothstein. We also discuss the problem of infinite reducibility. Several examples are elaborated on.
Ph.D. thesis, December 2006, german abstract
Ph.D. thesis, December 2006, german abstract