%0 Journal Article %1 WOS:000167881800021 %A Landim, RR %A Almeida, CAS %C PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS %D 2001 %I ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV %J PHYSICS LETTERS B %K BRST/anti-BRST antisymmetric arbitrary dimensions; fields; gauge generation; mass non-abelian space-time symmetry} tensor theories; {topological %N 1-2 %P 147-151 %R 10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00264-7 %T Topologically massive non-abelian BF models in arbitrary space-time dimensions %V 504 %X This work extends to the D-dimensional space-time the topological mass generation mechanism of the non-abelian BF model in four dimensions. In order to construct the gauge invariant non-abelian kinetic terms for a (D-2)-form B and a 1-form A, we introduce an auxiliary (D-3)-form V. Furthermore, we obtain a complete set of BRST and anti-BRST transformation rules of the fields using the so-called horizontality condition, and construct a BRST/anti-BRST invariant quantum action for the model in D-dimensional space-time. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.

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