  The Lagrangian Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formalism gives the rules for the
quantisation of a general class of gauge theories which contain all the
theories known up to now. It does, however, not only give a recipe to obtain a
gauge fixed action, but also gives a nice understanding of the mechanism behind
gauge fixing. It moreover brings together a lot of previous knowledge and
recipes in one main concept~: the canonical transformations. We explain the
essentials of this formalism and give related results on the superparticle.
Also anomalies (in general functions of fields and antifields) can be obtained
in this formalism, and it gives the relation between anomalies in different
gauges. A Pauli-Villars scheme can be used to obtain a regularised definition
of the expressions at the one loop level. The calculations become similar to
those of Fujikawa with the extra freedom of using arbitrary variables. A
discrepancy between anomalies in light-cone gauge of the Green-Schwarz
superstring and in the semi-light-cone gauge is discussed.
