On ghost condensation, mass generation and Abelian dominance in the Maximal Abelian Gauge

Details On ghost condensation, mass generation and Abelian dominance in the Maximal Abelian Gauge On ghost condensation, mass generation and Abelian dominance in the Maximal Abelian Gauge

2002-09-03

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0209025v2

J.Phys.A36:8507-8516,2003

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

7 pages; uses revtex4

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/36/31/312

Recent work claimed that the off-diagonal gluons (and ghosts) in pure Yang-Mills theories, with Maximal Abelian gauge fixing (MAG), attain a dynamical mass through an off-diagonal ghost condensate. This condensation takes place due to a quartic ghost interaction, unavoidably present in MAG for renormalizability purposes. The off-diagonal mass can be seen as evidence for Abelian dominance. We discuss why ghost condensation of the type discussed in those works cannot be the reason for the off-diagonal mass and Abelian dominance, since it results in a tachyonic mass. We also point out what the full mechanism behind the generation of a real mass might look like.

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