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Flow Equations for Yang-Mills Theories in General Axial Gauges

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present a formulation of non-Abelian gauge theories in general axial gauges using a Wilsonian (or 'Exact') Renormalisation Group. No 'spurious' propagator divergencies are encountered in contrast to standard perturbation theory. Modified Ward identities, compatible with the flow equation, ensure gauge invariance of physical Green functions. The axial gauge nA=0n A=0 is shown to be a fixed point under the flow equation. Possible non-perturbative approximation schemes and further applications are outlined.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9802064,
  title  = {Flow Equations for Yang-Mills Theories in General Axial Gauges},
  author = {Daniel F. Litim and Jan M. Pawlowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9802064},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, latex, no figures, 3 equations added, references updated, to be published in Phys. Lett. B