On quantum deformation of conformal symmetry: gauge dependence via field redefinitions

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02504-2zbMATH Open0998.81057arXivhep-th/0206234MaRDI QIDQ697898FDOQ697898

Authors: Sergei M. Kuzenko, I. McArthur 

Publication date: 17 September 2002

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

Abstract: The effective action in gauge theories is known to depend on a choice of gauge fixing conditions. This dependence is such that any change of gauge conditions is equivalent to a field redefinition in the effective action. In this sense, the quantum deformation of conformal symmetry in the N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory, which was computed in 't Hooft gauge in hep-th/9808039 and hep-th/0203236, is gauge dependent. The deformation is an intrinsic property of the theory in that it cannot be eliminated by a local choice of gauge (although we sketch a field redefinition induced by a nonlocal gauge which, on the Coulomb branch of the theory, converts the one-loop quantum-corrected conformal transformations to the classical ones). We explicitly compute the deformed conformal symmetry in R_xi gauge. The conformal transformation law of the gauge field turns out to be xi-independent. We construct the scalar field redefinition which relates the 't Hooft and R_xi gauge results. A unique feature of 't Hooft gauge is that it makes it possible to consistently truncate the one-loop conformal deformation to the terms of first order in derivatives of the fields such that the corresponding transformations form a field realization of the conformal algebra.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0206234

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zbMATH Keywords

\(N=4\) super-Yang-Mills theoryconformal algebra field realizationscalar field redefinition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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