A BRST gauge-fixing procedure for Yang-Mills theory on sphere

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2005.10.067zbMATH Open1247.81503arXivhep-th/0509161OpenAlexW1997942249MaRDI QIDQ453935FDOQ453935

Authors: Rabin Banerjee, Shinichi Deguchi 

Publication date: 30 September 2012

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

Abstract: A gauge-fixing procedure for the Yang-Mills theory on an n-dimensional sphere (or a hypersphere) is discussed in a systematic manner. We claim that Adler's gauge-fixing condition used in massless Euclidean QED on a hypersphere is not conventional because of the presence of an extra free index, and hence is unfavorable for the gauge-fixing procedure based on the BRST invariance principle (or simply BRST gauge-fixing procedure). Choosing a suitable gauge condition, which is proved to be equivalent to a generalization of Adler's condition, we apply the BRST gauge-fixing procedure to the Yang-Mills theory on a hypersphere to obtain consistent results. Field equations for the Yang-Mills field and associated fields are derived in manifestly O(n+1) covariant or invariant forms. In the large radius limit, these equations reproduce the corresponding field equations defined on the n-dimensional flat space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0509161

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zbMATH Keywords

BRST symmetryAdler's gauge-fixing conditionconformal Killing vectors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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