The Gribov phenomenon in flat and curved spaces

DOI10.1142/S0219887814500182zbMATH Open1297.81132arXiv1308.5344OpenAlexW2051513739MaRDI QIDQ5416629FDOQ5416629

Authors: Marco de Cesare 

Publication date: 14 May 2014

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The quantization of Yang-Mills theories relies on the gauge-fixing procedure. However, in the non-Abelian case this procedure leads to the well known Gribov ambiguity. In order to solve the ambiguity a modification of the functional integral formula must be introduced. As a consequence of this, the Green functions get deep modifications in the infrared. We consider in particular the SU (N) case and show that in the pure gauge case the ghost propagator is enhanced, while the gluon propagator is suppressed in this limit, therefore the study of the Gribov ambiguity may shed some light on the mass gap problem and on colour confinement. We discuss some recent developments on the subject in the case of a curved background. We argue that the concurrent presence of a spacetime curvature and the Gribov ambiguity may introduce further modifications to the Green functions in the infrared.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5344

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zbMATH Keywords

Gribov ambiguityspacetime curvatureYang-Mills theoriescolour confinement, Green functionsmass gap problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Green's functions for ordinary differential equations (34B27) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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