On the Consistency of the Exact Renormalization Group Approach Applied to Gauge Theories in Algebraic Non-Covariant Gauges

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Latex2e, 49 pages, 2 EPS figures. Misprints corrected. Version to be published on IJMPA

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10.1142/S0217751X00002196

We study a class of Wilsonian formulations of non-Abelian gauge theories in algebraic non-covariant gauges where the Wilsonian infrared cutoff $\Lambda$ is inserted as a mass term for the propagating fields. In this way the Ward-Takahashi identities are preserved to all scales. Nevertheless BRST-invariance in broken and the theory is gauge-dependent and unphysical at $\Lambda\neq0$. Then we discuss the infrared limit $\Lambda\to0$. We show that the singularities of the axial gauge choice are avoided in planar gauge and light-cone gauge. In addition the issue of infrared divergences is addressed in some explicit example. Finally the rectangular Wilson loop of size $2L\times 2T$ is evaluated at lowest order in perturbation theory and a non commutativity between the limits $\Lambda\to0$ and $T\to\infty$ is pointed out.

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