Gauge-invariant fields and flow equations for Yang-Mills theories

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2018.07.002zbMATH Open1395.81168arXiv1710.02494OpenAlexW2764261028WikidataQ56936843 ScholiaQ56936843MaRDI QIDQ1672307FDOQ1672307

Authors: Christof Wetterich 

Publication date: 7 September 2018

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

Abstract: We discuss the concept of gauge-invariant fields for non-abelian gauge theories. Infinitesimal fluctuations around a given gauge field can be split into physical and gauge fluctuations. Starting from some reference field the gauge-invariant fields are constructed by consecutively adding physical fluctuations. An arbitrary gauge field can be mapped to an associated gauge invariant field. An effective action that depends on gauge-invariant fields becomes a gauge-invariant functional of arbitrary gauge fields by associating to every gauge field the corresponding gauge-invariant field. The gauge-invariant effective action can be obtained from an implicit functional integral with a suitable "physical gauge fixing". We generalize this concept to the gauge-invariant effective average action or flowing action, which involves an infrared cutoff. It obeys a gauge-invariant functional flow equation. We demonstrate the use of this flow equation by a simple computation of the running gauge coupling and propagator in pure $SU(N)$-Yang-Mills theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02494

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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