Enumerating Gribov copies on the lattice
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Publication:1947963
DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2012.12.011zbMATH Open1266.81130arXiv1203.4847OpenAlexW2098042262MaRDI QIDQ1947963FDOQ1947963
Ciaran Hughes, J. I. Skullerud, Dhagash Mehta
Publication date: 29 April 2013
Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: In the modern formulation of lattice gauge-fixing, the gauge fixing condition is written in terms of the minima or stationary points (collectively called solutions) of a gauge-fixing functional. Due to the non-linearity of this functional, it usually has many solutions called Gribov copies. The dependence of the number of Gribov copies, n[U] on the different gauge orbits plays an important role in constructing the Faddeev-Popov procedure and hence in realising the BRST symmetry on the lattice. Here, we initiate a study of counting n[U] for different orbits using three complimentary methods: 1. analytical results in lower dimensions, and some lower bounds on n[U] in higher dimensions, 2. the numerical polynomial homotopy continuation method, which numerically finds all Gribov copies for a given orbit for small lattices, and 3. numerical minimisation ("brute force"), which finds many distinct Gribov copies, but not necessarily all. Because n for the coset SU(N_c)/U(1) of an SU(N_c) theory is orbit-independent, we concentrate on the residual compact U(1) case in this article and establish that n is orbit-dependent for the minimal lattice Landau gauge and orbit-independent for the absolute lattice Landau gauge. We also observe that contrary to a previous claim, n is not exponentially suppressed for the recently proposed stereographic lattice Landau gauge compared to the naive gauge in more than one dimension.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.4847
Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25) Applications of linear algebraic groups to the sciences (20G45)
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