Author/Authors :
Jorge Alfaro-Garcia، نويسنده , , Poul H. Damgaard، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
The Δ-operator of the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism is the Hamiltonian BRST charge of Abelian shift transformations in the ghost momentum representation. We generalize this Δ-operator, and its associated hierarchy of antibrackets, to that of an arbitrary non-Abelian and possibly open algebra of any rank. We comment on the possible application of this formalism to closed string field theory.