Non-Abelian Gauge Symmetry in the Causal Epstein–Glaser Approach

DOI10.1142/S0217751X97002437MaRDI QIDQ4211956zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Tobias Hurth

Publication date 18 October 1998

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9511139

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic gauge invariancecausal Epstein-Glaser formalismcausal splitting and adiabatic switching of operator-valued distributiongauge symmetrylinear gaugestree graphsYang-Mills couplings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: We present some generalizations of a recently proposed alternative approach to nonabelian gauge theories based on the causal Epstein-Glaser method in perturbative quantum field theory. Nonabelian gauge invariance is defined by a simple commutator relation in every order of perturbation theory separately using only the linear (abelian) BRS-transformations of the asymptotic fields. This condition is sufficient for the unitarity of the S-matrix in the physical subspace. We derive the most general specific coupling compatible with the conditions of nonabelian gauge invariance and normalizability. We explicitly show that the quadrilinear terms, the four-gluon-coupling and the four-ghost-coupling, are generated by our linear condition of nonabelian gauge invariance. Moreover, we work out the required generalizations for linear gauges.

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