A possible new phase in non-perturbatively gauge-fixed Yang-Mills theory
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2013-10-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
The standard expectation is that gauge fixing cannot alter the physics in the physical sector of a Yang-Mills theory. Here we argue that this may not always be true: in an SU(2) Yang-Mills theory in which the coset is non-perturbatively gauge fixed, we find that a new phase, with spontaneous symmetry breaking and a Higgs-like mechanism, appears to be a possibility.
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@article{arxiv.1310.5301,
title = {A possible new phase in non-perturbatively gauge-fixed Yang-Mills theory},
author = {Maarten Golterman and Yigal Shamir},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.5301},
year = {2013}
}
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7 pages, contribution to Lattice 2013