An analysis on the convergence of equal-time commutators and the closure of the BRST algebra in Yang-Mills theories.

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)90282-8MaRDI QIDQ1967526zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jisuke Kubo

Publication date 6 March 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9401106

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: In renormalizable theories, we define equal-time commutators (ETC'S) in terms of the equal-time limit and investigate its convergence in perturbation theory. We find that the equal-time limit vanishes for amplitudes with the effective dimension $d_{emeff}leq-2$ and is finite for those with $d_{emeff}=-1$ but without nontrivial discontinuity. Otherwise we expect divergent equal-time limits. We also find that, if the ETC's involved in verifying an Jacobi identity exist, the identity is satisfied. Under these circumstances, we show in the Yang-Mills theory that the ETC of the $0$ component of the BRST current with each other vanishes to all orders in perturbation theory if the theory is free from the chiral anomaly, from which we conclude that $[,Q,,,Q,]=0$, where $Q$ is the BRST charge. For the case that the chiral anomaly is not canceled, we use various broken Ward identities to show that $[,Q,,,Q,]$ is finite and $[,Q,,,[,Q,,,Q],]$ vanishes at the one-loop level and that they start to diverge at the two-loop level unless there is some unexpected cancellation mechanism that improves the degree of convergence.

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