SOME OBSERVATIONS ON NONCOVARIANT GAUGES AND THE ε-TERM

DOI10.1142/S0217732302009192zbMATH Open1083.81552arXivhep-th/0205045MaRDI QIDQ5312411FDOQ5312411

Satish D. Joglekar

Publication date: 31 August 2005

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the Lagrangian path-integrals in Minkowski space for gauges with a residual gauge-invariance. From rather elementary considerations, we demonstrate the necessity of inclusion of an epsilon-term (even) in the formal treatments, without which one may reach incorrect conclusions. We show, further, that the epsilon-term can contribute to the BRST WT-identities in a nontrivial way (even as epsilon-->0). We also show that the (expectation value of the) correct epsilon-term satisfies an algebraic condition. We show by considering (a commonly used) example of a simple local quadratic epsilon -term, that they lead to additional constraints on Green's function that are not normally taken into account in the BRST formalism that ignores the epsilon-term, and that they are characteristic of the way the singularities in propagators are handled. We argue that for a subclass of these gauges, the Minkowski path-integral could not be obtained by a Wick rotation from a Euclidean path-integral.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0205045

zbMATH Keywords

perturbation theoryGauge theoriespath-integral formulationnon-covariant gauges

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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• Renormalizable non-covariant gauges and Coulomb gauge limit

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