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Gribov Problem and BRST Symmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

After a brief historical comment on the study of BRS(or BRST) symmetry , we discuss the quantization of gauge theories with Gribov copies. A path integral with BRST symmetry can be formulated by summing the Gribov-type copies in a very specific way if the functional correspondence between τ\tau and the gauge parameter ω\omega defined by τ(x)=f(Aμω(x))\tau (x) = f( A_{\mu}^{\omega}(x)) is ``globally single valued'', where f(Aμω(x))=0f( A_{\mu}^{\omega}(x)) = 0 specifies the gauge condition. As an example of the theory which satisfies this criterion, we comment on a soluble gauge model with Gribov-type copies recently analyzed by Friedberg, Lee, Pang and Ren. We also comment on a possible connection of the dynamical instability of BRST symmetry with the Gribov problem on the basis of an index notion.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9511124,
  title  = {Gribov Problem and BRST Symmetry},
  author = {Kazuo Fujikawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9511124},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

20 pages plus 1 figure. To be published in the Proceedings of International Symposium on BRS Symmetry(Universal Academy Press, Tokyo)

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