Conformal symmetry and differential regularization of the three-gluon vertex

DOI10.1016/0003-4916(92)90269-RMaRDI QIDQ1816170zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 28 January 1997

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9204004

zbMATH Keywords

conformal symmetryQCD Lagrangianrenormalization groupvertex functionWard identities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Abstract: The conformal symmetry of the QCD Lagrangian for massless quarks is broken both by renormalization effects and the gauge fixing procedure. Renormalized primitive divergent amplitudes have the property that their form away from the overall coincident point singularity is fully determined by the bare Lagrangian, and scale dependence is restricted to $delta$-functions at the singularity. If gauge fixing could be ignored, one would expect these amplitudes to be conformal invariant for non-coincident points. We find that the one-loop three-gluon vertex function $Gamm{a}_{muuho}(x,y,z)$ is conformal invariant in this sense, if calculated in the background field formalism using the Feynman gauge for internal gluons. It is not yet clear why the expected breaking due to gauge fixing is absent. The conformal property implies that the gluon, ghost and quark loop contributions to $Gamm{a}_{muuho}$ are each purely numerical combinations of two universal conformal tensors $D_{muuho}(x,y,z)$ and $C_{muuho}(x,y,z)$ whose explicit form is given in the text. Only $D_{muuho}$ has an ultraviolet divergence, although $C_{muuho}$ requires a careful definition to resolve the expected ambiguity of a formally linearly divergent quantity. Regularization is straightforward and leads to a renormalized vertex function which satisfies the required Ward identity, and from which the beta-function is easily obtained. Exact conformal invariance is broken in higher-loop orders, but we outline a speculative scenario in which the perturbative structure of the vertex function is determined from a conformal invariant primitive core by interplay of the renormalization group equation and Ward identities.

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