STOCHASTIC QUANTIZATION OF ANTISYMMETRIC TENSOR FIELDS

Abstract

We extend the stochastic quantization procedure of Parisi and Wu to the case of anti-symmetric tensor fields of arbitrary rank. It is shown that the correct number of physical degrees of freedom on mass shell is automatically projected out. The gauge degrees of freedom can be buried in the initial data of the Langevin equation describing the stochastic process in analogy with the treatment of Abelian and non-Abelian gauge fields.