%0 Journal Article %1 WOS:000167697900039 %A Medeiros, DM %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 consistent deformations; fields; gauge generation} mass nonabelian of symmetry; tensor theories; topological {method %N 1-4 %P 300-304 %R 10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00182-4 %T Consistent deformations method applied to a topological coupling of antisymmetric gauge fields in D=3 %V 502 %X In this work we use the method of consistent deformations of the master equation by Barnich and Henneaux in order to prove that an abelian topological coupling between a zero and a two form fields in D = 3 has no nonabelian generalization. We conclude that a topologically massive model involving the Kalb-Ramond two-form field does not admit a nonabelian generalization. The introduction of a connection-type one form field keeps the previous result. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.

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