Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1994-11-11
Annals Phys. 244 (1995) 340-425
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
77 pages, latex, no figures, final version
Scientific paper
10.1006/aphy.1995.1117
We present the causal construction of perturbative Yang-Mills theories in four(3+1)-dimensional space-time. We work with free quantum fields throughout. The inductive causal method by Epstein and Glaser leads directly to a finite perturbation series and does not rely on an intermediary regularization of the theory. The causal method naturally separates the physical infrared problem of massless theories from ultraviolet-sensitive features like normalizability by regarding the distributional character of the S-matrix. We prove the normalizability of the Yang-Mills theory with fermionic matter fields and study the discrete symmetry transformations in the causal formalism. We introduce a definition of nonabelian gauge invariance which only involves the free asymptotic field operators and give mathematically rigorous and conceptually simple proofs of nonabelian gauge invariance and of the physical unitarity of the S-matrix in all orders of perturbation theory.
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