Boundary terms in quantum field theory and the spin structure of QCD

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2014.11.004zbMATH Open1326.81242arXiv1408.3233OpenAlexW2024337120MaRDI QIDQ895384FDOQ895384

Authors: Peter Lowdon 

Publication date: 2 December 2015

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

Abstract: Determining how boundary terms behave in a quantum field theory (QFT) is crucial for understanding the dynamics of the theory. Nevertheless, boundary terms are often neglected using classical-type arguments which are no longer justified in the full quantum theory. In this paper we address this problem by establishing a necessary and sufficient condition for arbitrary spatial boundary terms to vanish in a general QFT. As an application of this condition we examine the issue of whether the angular momentum operator in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) has a physically meaningful quark-gluon decomposition. Using this condition it appears as though this is not the case, and that it is in fact the non-perturbative QCD structure which prevents the possibility of such a decomposition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3233

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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