Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1999-12-27
Nucl.Phys. B577 (2000) 405-415
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
12 pages
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00102-4
In the absence of Gribov complications, the modified gauge fixing in gauge theory $ \int{\cal D}A_{\mu}\{\exp[-S_{YM}(A_{\mu})-\int f(A_{\mu})dx] /\int{\cal D}g\exp[-\int f(A_{\mu}^{g})dx]\}$ for example, $f(A_{\mu})=(1/2)(A_{\mu})^{2}$, is identical to the conventional Faddeev-Popov formula $\int{\cal D}A_{\mu}\{\delta(D^{\mu}\frac{\delta f(A_{\nu})}{\delta A_{\mu}})/\int {\cal D}g\delta(D^{\mu}\frac{\delta f(A_{\nu}^{g})} {\delta A_{\mu}^{g}})\}\exp[-S_{YM}(A_{\mu})]$ if one takes into account the variation of the gauge field along the entire gauge orbit. Despite of its quite different appearance,the modified formula defines a local and BRST invariant theory and thus ensures unitarity at least in perturbation theory. In the presence of Gribov complications, as is expected in non-perturbative Yang-Mills theory, the modified formula is equivalent to the conventional formula but not identical to it:Both of the definitions give rise to non-local theory in general and thus the unitarity is not obvious. Implications of the present analysis on the lattice regularization are briefly discussed.
Fujikawa Kazuo
Terashima Hiroaki
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