Weak gauge-invariance of dimension two condensate in Yang-Mills theory

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2005.06.010zbMATH Open1247.81283arXivhep-th/0504088OpenAlexW1965784414MaRDI QIDQ451749FDOQ451749

Authors: Kei Kondo 

Publication date: 23 September 2012

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a formal proof that the space-time average of the vacuum condensate of mass dimension two, i.e., the vacuum expectation value of the squared potential $mathscr{A}_m{u}^2$, is gauge invariant in the weak sense that it is independent of the gauge-fixing condition adopted in quantizing the Yang-Mills theory. This is shown at least for the small deformation from the generalized Lorentz and the modified Maximal Abelian gauge in the naive continuum formulation neglecting Gribov copies. This suggests that the numerical value of the condensate could be the same no matter what gauge-fixing conditions for choosing the representative from the gauge orbit are adopted to measure it. Finally, we discuss how this argument should be modified when the Gribov copies exist.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0504088

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge invarianceYang-Mills theorygauge fixingGribov copyvacuum condensation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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