On ghost condensation, mass generation and Abelian dominance in the maximal Abelian gauge

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/31/312zbMATH Open1035.81527arXivhep-th/0209025OpenAlexW1994960118MaRDI QIDQ4451237FDOQ4451237

Henri Verschelde, David Dudal

Publication date: 23 February 2004

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recent work claimed that the off-diagonal gluons (and ghosts) in pure Yang-Mills theories, with Maximal Abelian gauge fixing (MAG), attain a dynamical mass through an off-diagonal ghost condensate. This condensation takes place due to a quartic ghost interaction, unavoidably present in MAG for renormalizability purposes. The off-diagonal mass can be seen as evidence for Abelian dominance. We discuss why ghost condensation of the type discussed in those works cannot be the reason for the off-diagonal mass and Abelian dominance, since it results in a tachyonic mass. We also point out what the full mechanism behind the generation of a real mass might look like.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0209025

zbMATH Keywords

Yang-Mills theoriestachyonic massoff-diagonal gluonsreal mass

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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