Gauge freedom in path integrals in abelian gauge theory

DOI10.1093/PTEP/PTV190zbMATH Open1361.81099arXiv1508.02923OpenAlexW3103784819MaRDI QIDQ5347126FDOQ5347126

Hikaru Miura, Teijiro Saito, Ryusuke Endo

Publication date: 22 May 2017

Published in: PTEP. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We extend gauge symmetry of Abelian gauge field to incorporate quantum gauge degrees of freedom. We twice apply the Harada--Tsutsui gauge recovery procedure to gauge-fixed theories. First, starting from the Faddeev--Popov path integral in the Landau gauge, we recover the gauge symmetry by introducing an additional field as an extended gauge degree of freedom. Fixing the extended gauge symmetry by the usual Faddeev--Popov procedure, we obtain the theory of Type I gaugeon formalism. Next, applying the same procedure to the resulting gauge-fixed theory, we obtain a theory equivalent to the extended Type I gaugeon formalism.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.02923

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

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