Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2000-12-12
JHEP 0108:016,2001
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
26 pages, Tex, 1 figure includes 2 graphs
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2001/08/016
In stochastic quantization, ordinary 4-dimensional Euclidean quantum field theory is expressed as a functional integral over fields in 5 dimensions with a fictitious 5th time. This is advantageous, in particular for gauge theories, because it allows a different type of gauge fixing that avoids the Gribov problem. Traditionally, in this approach, the fictitious 5th time is the analog of computer time in a Monte Carlo simulation of 4-dimensional Euclidean fields. A Euclidean probability distribution which depends on the 5th time relaxes to an equilibrium distribution. However a broader framework, which we call ``bulk quantization", is required for extension to fermions, and for the increased power afforded by the higher symmetry of the 5-dimensional action that is topological when expressed in terms of auxiliary fields. Within the broader framework, we give a direct proof by means of Schwinger-Dyson equations that a time-slice of the 5-dimensional theory is equivalent to the usual 4-dimensional theory. The proof does not rely on the conjecture that the relevant stochastic process relaxes to an equilibrium distribution. Rather, it depends on the higher symmetry of the 5-dimensional action which includes a BRST-type topological invariance, and invariance under translation and inversion in the 5-th time. We express the physical S-matrix directly in terms of the truncated 5-dimensional correlation functions, for which ``going off the mass-shell'' means going from the 3 physical degrees of freedom to 5 independent variables. We derive the Landau-Cutokosky rules of the 5-dimensional theory which include the physical unitarity relation.
Baulieu Laurent
Zwanziger Daniel
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