BRST symmetry and Darboux transformations in Abelian 2-form gauge theory

Abstract

We analyse the constraints of an Abelian 2-form gauge theory using the Faddeev-Jackiw symplectic formalism. Further, this theory is treated as a constrained system in the context of the Batalin-Fradkin-Vilkovisky formalism to retrieve the BRST symmetry. Using the fields decompositions the effective action for the Abelian 2-form gauge theory is written in terms of a diagonalized uncanonical part and the BRST exact one. The nilpotent BRST and contracting homotopy σ closed transformations with field redefinitions are shown as the Darboux transformations used in the Faddeev-Jackiw formalism.