Igor Viktorovich Tyutin (russian: И́горь Ви́кторович Тю́тин,

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: '; born 24 August 1940) is a Russian theoretical physicist, who works on

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. Tyutin is a professor at the

Lebedev Institute The Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI RAS or just LPI) (in russian: Физи́ческий институ́т имени П.Н.Ле́бедева Российской академии наук (ФИАН)), situated ...

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. In an unpublished Lebedev Institute report, he developed the

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around 1975 in Russia in parallel to and independently of the work of

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, and

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in France. The BRST formalism is a method for quantization of fields with constraints such as gauge invariance. In quantum field theory, the procedure is of fundamental importance for attempts at constructing string field theories. In 2009 Tyutin received the

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with

, Alain Rouet, and

References

External links

Tyutin at the webpages of the I. E. Tamm Theory Department of the Lebedev Institute

Tyutin's publication list according to mathnet
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