Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1996-07-17
Phys.Rev. D54 (1996) 7825-7831
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
13 pages, uuencoded and compressed LaTeX file, no figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.54.7825
For an $S_4$ space-time manifold global aspects of gauge-fixing are investigated using the relation to Topological Quantum Field Theory on the gauge group. The partition function of this TQFT is shown to compute the regularized Euler character of a suitably defined space of gauge transformations. Topological properties of the space of solutions to a covariant gauge conditon on the orbit of a particular instanton are found using the $SO(5)$ isometry group of the $S_4$ base manifold. We obtain that the Euler character of this space differs from that of an orbit in the topologically trivial sector. This result implies that an orbit with Pontryagin number $\k=\pm1$ in covariant gauges on $S_4$ contributes to physical correlation functions with a different multiplicity factor due to the Gribov copies, than an orbit in the trivial $\k=0$ sector. Similar topological arguments show that there is no contribution from the topologically trivial sector to physical correlation functions in gauges defined by a nondegenerate background connection. We discuss possible physical implications of the global gauge dependence of Yang-Mills theory.
Baulieu Laurent
Rozenberg Alexander
Schaden Martin
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