Enumerating Gribov copies on the lattice

Details Enumerating Gribov copies on the lattice Enumerating Gribov copies on the lattice

2012-03-21

arxiv.org/abs/1203.4847v2

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Lattice

38 pages, 15 eps figures. Added discussion of functional values at saddle points; some other minor modifications

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In the modern formulation of lattice gauge-fixing, the gauge fixing condition is written in terms of the minima or stationary points (collectively called solutions) of a gauge-fixing functional. Due to the non-linearity of this functional, it usually has many solutions called Gribov copies. The dependence of the number of Gribov copies, n[U] on the different gauge orbits plays an important role in constructing the Faddeev-Popov procedure and hence in realising the BRST symmetry on the lattice. Here, we initiate a study of counting n[U] for different orbits using three complimentary methods: 1. analytical results in lower dimensions, and some lower bounds on n[U] in higher dimensions, 2. the numerical polynomial homotopy continuation method, which numerically finds all Gribov copies for a given orbit for small lattices, and 3. numerical minimisation ("brute force"), which finds many distinct Gribov copies, but not necessarily all. Because n for the coset SU(N_c)/U(1) of an SU(N_c) theory is orbit-independent, we concentrate on the residual compact U(1) case in this article and establish that n is orbit-dependent for the minimal lattice Landau gauge and orbit-independent for the absolute lattice Landau gauge. We also observe that contrary to a previous claim, n is not exponentially suppressed for the recently proposed stereographic lattice Landau gauge compared to the naive gauge in more than one dimension.

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