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BRST-methods provide elegant and powerful tools for the construction and analysis of constrained systems, including models of particles, strings and fields. These lectures provide an elementary introduction to the ideas, illustrated with some important physical applications.
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van Holten, J. Aspects of BRST Quantization. In: Bick, E., Steffen, F.D. (eds) Topology and Geometry in Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 659. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31532-2_3
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