Gauge freedom in path integrals in abelian gauge theory

DOI10.1093/PTEP/PTV190MaRDI QIDQ5347126zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Teijiro Saito, Ryusuke Endo, Hikaru Miura

Publication date 22 May 2017

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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