2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/53805Some general techniques and theorems on the spacetime locality of the antifield formalism are illustrated in the familiar cases of the free scalar field, electromagnetism and Yang-Mills theory. The analysis explicitly shows that recent criticisms of the usual approach to dealing with locality are ill-founded.15 pages in LaTeX, ULB-PMIF-93/08High Energy Physics - TheorySpacetime locality of the antifield formalism : a "mise au point"text