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Generalized Stochastic Gauge Fixing

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

We propose a generalization of the stochastic gauge fixing procedure for the stochastic quantization of gauge theories where not only the drift term of the stochastic process is changed but also the Wiener process itself. All gauge invariant expectation values remain unchanged. As an explicit example we study the case of an abelian gauge field coupled with three bosonic matter fields in 0+1 dimensions. We nonperturbatively prove quivalence with the path integral formalism.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9702135,
  title  = {Generalized Stochastic Gauge Fixing},
  author = {Helmuth Huffel and Gerald Kelnhofer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9702135},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, latex, no figures