From Peierls brackets to a generalized Moyal bracket for type-I gauge theories

Details From Peierls brackets to a generalized Moyal bracket for type-I gauge theories From Peierls brackets to a generalized Moyal bracket for type-I gauge theories

2006-07-17

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0607114v1

Int.J.Geom.Meth.Mod.Phys.4:349-360,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

14 pages, Latex

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0219887807002107

In the space-of-histories approach to gauge fields and their quantization, the Maxwell, Yang--Mills and gravitational field are well known to share the property of being type-I theories, i.e. Lie brackets of the vector fields which leave the action functional invariant are linear combinations of such vector fields, with coefficients of linear combination given by structure constants. The corresponding gauge-field operator in the functional integral for the in-out amplitude is an invertible second-order differential operator. For such an operator, we consider advanced and retarded Green functions giving rise to a Peierls bracket among group-invariant functionals. Our Peierls bracket is a Poisson bracket on the space of all group-invariant functionals in two cases only: either the gauge-fixing is arbitrary but the gauge fields lie on the dynamical sub-space; or the gauge-fixing is a linear functional of gauge fields, which are generic points of the space of histories. In both cases, the resulting Peierls bracket is proved to be gauge-invariant by exploiting the manifestly covariant formalism. Moreover, on quantization, a gauge-invariant Moyal bracket is defined that reduces to i hbar times the Peierls bracket to lowest order in hbar.

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