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Global gauge conditions in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism

@article{Getzler2019GlobalGC,
  title={Global gauge conditions in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism},
  author={Ezra Getzler and Sean Weinz Pohorence},
  journal={arXiv: Mathematical Physics},
  year={2019}
}
In the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism, gauge conditions are expressed as Lagrangian submanifolds in the space of fields and antifields. We discuss a way of patching together gauge conditions over different parts of the space of fields, and apply this method to extend the light-cone gauge for the superparticle to a conic neighbourhood of the forward light-cone in momentum space. 
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