Gauge copies in the Landau-DeWitt gauge: a background invariant restriction

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2018.02.014MaRDI QIDQ1707889zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Dudal, David Vercauteren

Publication date 4 April 2018

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10142

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: The Landau background gauge, also known as the Landau-DeWitt gauge, has found renewed interest during the past decade given its usefulness in accessing the confinement-deconfinement transition via the vacuum expectation value of the Polyakov loop, describable via an appropriate background. In this Letter, we revisit this gauge from the viewpoint of it displaying gauge (Gribov) copies. We generalize the Gribov-Zwanziger effective action in a BRST and background invariant way; this action leads to a restriction on the allowed gauge fluctuations, thereby eliminating the infinitesimal background gauge copies. The explicit background invariance of our action is in contrast with earlier attempts to write down and use an effective Gribov-Zwanziger action. It allows to address certain subtleties arising in these earlier works, such as a spontaneous and thus spurious Lorentz symmetry breaking, something which is now averted.

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