Gauge independence of the effective potential revisited

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00226-6zbMATH Open0947.81039arXivhep-th/9902084OpenAlexW3097978109MaRDI QIDQ1572166FDOQ1572166

Oswaldo M. Del Cima, Daniel H. T. Franco, Olivier Piguet

Publication date: 12 July 2000

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We apply the formalism of extended BRS symmetry to the investigation of the gauge dependence of the effective potential in a spontaneously symmetry broken gauge theory. This formalism, which includes a set of Grassmann parameters defined as the BRS variations of the gauge-fixing parameters, allows us to derive in a quick and unambiguous way the related Nielsen identities, which express the physical gauge independence, in a class of generalized 't Hooft gauges, of the effective potential. We show in particular that the validity of the Nielsen identities does not require any constraint on the gauge-fixing parameters, to the contrary of some claims found in the literature. We use the method of algebraic renormalization, which leads to results independent of the particular renormalization scheme used.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9902084

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17)

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